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Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic
ISBN: PB: 9781602234284, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2021
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 tables
Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, n...
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£24,00
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Jean-Pierre Vernant From the Maquis to the Polis
ISBN: PB: 9780984201075, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
82 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914-2007) was one of most important intellectual figures of modern France, well-known for his structuralist approach to Greek myth and tragedy. Taking the form of an interview with the notoriously private French classicist and a...
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Marxism in the American Grain
ISBN: PB: 9780996635578, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, January 2021
150 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm
The work of Karl Marx has been taken up by a huge range of American writers, from a wide variety of perspectives. As Harry Harootunian argues in this provocative pamphlet, however, there is an indelible American stamp to this scholarship that unites...
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Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations
ISBN: PB: 9780996635561, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, May 2018
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...
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£10,00
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What the Foucault?
ISBN: PB: 9780996635547, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2018
94 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between. It's been twenty-five years since Sahlins first devised some after-dinner entert...
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£10,00
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Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...
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£10,00
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Complicities The People's Republic of China in Global Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780996635530, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
86 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting a...
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£10,00
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"Man-with Variations" Interviews with Franz Boas and Colleagues, 1937
ISBN: PB: 9780996635516, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2017
75 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
"The most interesting human beings, so far as talk is concerned, are anthropologists, farmers, prostitutes, psychiatrists, and the occasional bartender". So wrote Joseph Mitchell, the legendary New Yorker journalist and chronicler of the full spectru...
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£9,50
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Science of Myths and Vice Versa
ISBN: PB: 9780996635509, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
62 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition – with science providing empirically supported truths that replace the false ideas found in traditional mythologies. But the rhetoric of contemporary popular science and related genres tells a...
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Community of Scholars, Community of Teachers
ISBN: PB: 9780984201099, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
98 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Academics routinely engage with colleagues in the research community as a critical part of their work. But, although many researchers are also dedicated teachers, teaching tends to be seen as a private matter between a teacher and his or her students...
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