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Confucius Institutes Academic Malware
ISBN: PB: 9780984201082, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2015
64 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
In recent years, "Confucius Institutes" have sprung up on more than four hundred and fifty campuses worldwide, including nearly one hundred across the United States. At first glance, this seems like a benefit for everyone concerned. The colleges and...
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Data Now Bigger and Better!
ISBN: PB: 9780984201068, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2015
104 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Data is too big to be left to the data analysts".Data: Now Bigger and Better!" brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology – frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinsh...
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2001 and Counting Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9780984201051, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2014
100 pp., 17.7x11.5 cm, 2 halftones
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one the highest g...
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Ecology of Others Anthropology and the Question of Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780984201020, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2013
90 pp., 17.8x11 cm
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure f...
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Pastoral in Palestine
ISBN: PB: 9780984201037, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2013
122 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 78 colour illus.
For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations th...
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Inconstancy of the Indian Soul The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9780984201013, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, September 2011
108 pp., 18x11.5 cm
In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to re...
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Great Debate about Art
ISBN: PB: 9780984201006, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, June 2010
130 pp., 18x11.5 cm
In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of "art for art's sake". This was attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E. M. Forster. It influence...
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Pasta and Pizza
ISBN: PB: 9780979405716, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2007
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are inextricably connected to Italian identity. These familiar foods not only represent Italy's culinary traditions, according to anthropologist Franco La Cecla,...
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Museum, Inc. Inside the Global Art World
ISBN: PB: 9780976147510, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2006
88 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever".Museum, Inc". describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, pro...
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What Happened to Art Criticism?
ISBN: PB: 9780972819633, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2003
87 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Art criticism was once passionate, polemical, and judgmental; now critics are more often interested in ambiguity, neutrality, and nuanced description. And while art criticism is ubiquitous in newspapers, magazines, and exhibition brochures, it is als...
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