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One Book/Five Ways The Publishing Procedures of Five University Presses

ISBN: PB: 9780226030241, University of Chicago Press, May 1994
344 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 halftones, 10 line drawings

A testament to the ingenuity of scholarly presses, "One Book/Five Ways" is a fascinating experiment in comparative publishing. This book records the history of a single manuscript, entitled "No Time for Houseplants", submitted to five different unive...

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Contemporary Art

Object of Performance The American Avant-Garde since 1970

Sayre Henry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226735580, University of Chicago Press, February 1992
324 pp., 23x16 cm, 4 colour plates, 91 halftones

Sayre defines for the first time the apparently diffuse avant-garde art of the past two decades in terms of its distinctly postmodern concerns. The range of arts discussed here encompasses contemporary dance, photography, oral poetics, performance ar...

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Anthropology

Origin of Table Manners Mythologiques, Volume 3

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474939, University of Chicago Press, November 1990
552 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 maps and line drawings

Table of Symbols Foreword Part One: The Mystery of the Woman Cut Into Pieces 1. At the Scene of the Crime 2. A Clinging Half Part Two: From Myth to Novel 1. The Days and the Seasons 2. The Daily Round Part Three: The Canoe Journey of the Moon and...

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Other

Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions Essays in Comparative Religion

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: PB: 9780226203928, University of Chicago Press, March 1978
158 pp., 23x15 cm

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent sch...

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