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Anthropology

Truth in Motion The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination

Holbraad Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226349213, ISBN: HB: 9780226349206, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 3 halftones, 6 line illus.

Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barriosof Havana among practitioners of Ifa, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, "Truth in Motion" reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly d...

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Law

Supreme Court Review 2011

Hutchinson Dennis J., Strauss David A., Stone Geoffrey R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226362564, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For fifty years, "The Supreme Court Review" has been lauded for providing authoritative discussion of the Court's most significant decisions. The "Review" is an in-depth annual critique of the Supreme Court and its work, keeping up on the forefront o...

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Political Science

Literary Criticism

Mosaic Constitution Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton

Hammill Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780226315423, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in "The Mosaic Constitution", arguing that Moses's constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central...

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Media Studies

How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

Hayles Katherine N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226321424, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones

"How do we think?" N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition h...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Ecology

Wasted World How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet

Hengeveld Rob

ISBN: HB: 9780226326993, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 line illus.

All systems produce waste as part of a cycle – bacteria, humans, combustion engines, even one as large and complex as a city. To some extent, this waste can be absorbed, processed, or recycled – though never completely. In "Wasted World", Rob Hengeve...

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Music

SamulNori Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture

Hesselink Nathan

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226330976, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226330969, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 21 halftones, 11 line illus.

In 1978, four musicians crowded into a cramped basement theater in downtown Seoul, where they, for the first time, brought the rural percussive art of p'ungmul to a burgeoning urban audience. In doing so, they began a decades-long reinvention of trad...

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Photography

My Wrangell Mountains

Homberger Ruedi

ISBN: HB: 9781602231368, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
225 pp., 23x30.5 cm, 350 colour illus.

High atop cascading waterfalls and deep within the lush green depths of the valleys, Swiss photographer Ruedi Homberger has for more than twenty years captured in photographs the majestic beauty of eastern Alaska's Wrangell Mountain range. In additio...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and Race Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940

Hart Mitchell B.

ISBN: PB: 9781584657170, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2011
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet many Jews did take up racial discourse and used it to analyze Judaism...

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Jewish Studies

Middle East

River Jordan The Mythology of a Dividing Line

Havrelock Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226319575, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

As the site of several miracles in the Jewish and Christian traditions, the Jordan is one of the world's holiest rivers. It is also the major political and symbolic border contested by Israelis and Palestinians. Combining biblical and folkloric studi...

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