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Culture Studies

Catastrophizing Materialism and the Making of Disaster

Passannante Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780226612218, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 colour plates, 7 halftones

When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imaginat...

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Culture Studies

Equestrian Cultures Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity

Guest Kristen, Mattfeld Monica

ISBN: PB: 9780226589510, ISBN: HB: 9780226583044, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 1 table

As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities – from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and ther...

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Culture Studies

Ecology

Seeing Green The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images

Dunaway Finis

ISBN: PB: 9780226597614, ISBN: HB: 9780226169903, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones

American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the "Crying Indian", who shed a tear in response to litter and pollution; the cooling towers of Three Mile Island, site of a notorious nuclear accident; the sorrowful spectacle of oil-soaked wildlife...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Technology Critical History of a Concept

Schatzberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...

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America

Culture Studies

Machines of Youth America's Car Obsession

Cross Gary S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226551135, ISBN: HB: 9780226341644, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

For American teenagers, getting a driver's license has long been a watershed moment, separating teens from their childish pasts as they accelerate toward the sweet, sweet freedom of their futures. With driver's license in hand, teens are on the road...

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Culture Studies

Is the Cemetery Dead?

Sloane David Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780226539447, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 8 tables

In modern society, we have professionalized our care for the dying and deceased in hospitals and hospices, churches and funeral homes, cemeteries and mausoleums to aid dazed and disoriented mourners. But these formal institutions can be alienating an...

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Culture Studies

Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History

Hackenesch Silke

ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones

This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Normality A Critical Genealogy

Cryle Peter, Stephens Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Universalism without Uniformity Explorations in Mind and Culture

Cassaniti Julia L., Menon Usha

ISBN: PB: 9780226501680, ISBN: HB: 9780226501543, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 9 tables

One of the major issues in cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while also acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection brings together leading figures in the field of cultural psychology to consider that question, addressing...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory

Ray Sarah Jaquette, Maier Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...

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