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Stambeli Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226392196, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 7 tables, 7 halftones, 12 line illus.
In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an ela...
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£24,00
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Spirited Things The Work of "Possession" in Afro-Atlantic Religions
ISBN: PB: 9780226122762, ISBN: HB: 9780226122625, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
The word "possession" is trickier than we often think, especially in the context of the Black Atlantic and its religions and economy. Here possession can refer to spirits, material goods, and, indeed, people. In "Spirited Things", Paul Christopher Jo...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Spirits in Politics Uncertainties of Power and Healing in African Societies
ISBN: PB: 9783593399157, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
265 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Spirits in Politics" explores the interface between religion and politics in African societies by examining recent and ongoing research in a variety of regional settings. Case studies from across the African continent exemplify how – and at which so...
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£40,00
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Social Life of Spirits
ISBN: PB: 9780226081779, ISBN: HB: 9780226081632, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones
Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else – symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same wa...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
ISBN: HB: 9780226322810, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
632 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 2 tables, 53 halftones
The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material – rubber – with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon, a decades-long conflict that found Britain, Fr...
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£39,00
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Stepping-Stones A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne
ISBN: PB: 9780300188028, Yale University Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 38 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.
The cave art of France's Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones i...
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£22,50
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Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...
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£30,00
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£100,00
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Sinister Yogis
ISBN: PB: 9780226895147, ISBN: HB: 9780226895130, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
376 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story o...
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£25,00
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£39,00
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Sailing on the Sea of Love The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780857420046, Seagull Books, March 2011
242 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 43 halftones
Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, "Sailing on the Sea of Love" is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul – a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul song plays in the...
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£19,00
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Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
ISBN: PB: 9780226645780, ISBN: HB: 9780226645773, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
312 pp., 23x15 cm
Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Bol...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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