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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...

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Anthropology

Linguistics

Translating Worlds The Epistemological Space of Translation

Severi Carlo, Hanks William F.

ISBN: PB: 9780986132513, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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Literary Criticism

Translation as Muse Poetic Translation in Catullus's Rome

Young Elizabeth Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780226279916, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with "Translation as Muse", she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus...

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America

Culture Studies

Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Bennett Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226323794, ISBN: HB: 9780226042930, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

Our traditional image of Chicago – as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends – is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to no...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

Transnational Poetics

Ramazani Jahan

ISBN: PB: 9780226334974, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous – "stubbornly national", in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts", according to W. H. Auden. But in "A Transnational Poetics", Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies...

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Education

Teaching Embodied Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools

Hayashi Akiko, Tobin Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780226263106, ISBN: HB: 9780226263076, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 188 halftones

When we look beyond lesson planning and curricula – those explicit facets that comprise so much of our discussion about education – we remember that teaching is an inherently social activity, shaped by a rich array of implicit habits, comportments, a...

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Philosophy

Tunguska, or the End of Nature A Philosophical Dialogue

Hampe Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226123127, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings

On June 30, 1908, a mysterious explosion erupted in the skies over a vast woodland area of Siberia. Known as the Tunguska Event, it has been a source of wild conjecture over the past century, attributed to causes ranging from meteors to a small black...

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Travel

Travels into Print Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

Keighren Innes M., Withers Charles W. J., Bell Bill

ISBN: HB: 9780226429533, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 colour plates, 25 halftones, 1 table

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry – products of the complex, and often contested, relat...

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Education

America

Trying Biology The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools

Shapiro Adam R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226273440, ISBN: HB: 9780226029450, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In "Trying Biology", Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes "monkey" trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the imp...

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