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Anthropology

Culture as Judicial Evidence Expert Testimony in Latin America

Rodriguez Leila

ISBN: PB: 9781947602632, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, May 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In Latin America, as early as 1975 testimony given under oath by anthropologists has been applied in the civil law systems in a number of Latin American countries. Called peritajes antropologicos culturales, this testimony can come in the form of wr...

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Literary Criticism

Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell

Griffith Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones

The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...

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America

Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History

Terry Clinto

ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates

At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...

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Anthropology

Surviving the Americas Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City

Cosgrove Serena, Idiaquez Jose

ISBN: PB: 9781947602113, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
145 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Surviving the Americas" is an intersectional analysis of Garifuna communities in the Americas, with an emphasis on those in Nicaragua and the United States. Serena Cosgrove and Jose Idiaquez provide a platform for the voices of indigenous peoples th...

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Linguistics

Digital Community Engagement Partnering Communities with the Academy

Wingo Rebecca S., Heppler Jason, Schadewald Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781947602519, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos

"Digital Community Engagement" brings together cutting-edge campus-community partnerships with a focus on digital projects. Through a series of case studies authored by academics and their community partners, this collection explores models for digit...

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Pediatrics

Community-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health, Volume 1

Jacquez Farrah, Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602687, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Communitiy-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health" is the first in a seven-series volume that looks at participatory public health research studies conducted by scholar/community interdisciplinary teams. In this volume, academics work toge...

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Public Health

Education

Creating Culture through Health Leadership

Svedin Lina

ISBN: HB: 9781947602601, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...

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Architecture

Into the Nest Futures of Affordable Housing

ISBN: PB: 9781947603066, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
160 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 438 line drawings and 111 halftones

Access to affordable housing is one of the most pressing issues facing cities worldwide, as populations grow and real estate prices rise. But the question of what we mean by the term "affordable housing" is far from clear. Designers shy away from the...

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Media Studies

Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks

Blevins Jeffrey, Lee James

ISBN: PB: 9781947602847, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

While social network analyses often demonstrate the usefulness of social media networks to affective publics and otherwise marginalized social justice groups, this book explores the domination and manipulation of social networks by more powerful poli...

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Education

Gender Studies

Designing in Class Activities to Promote Equity and Inclusion

Kumar Rita, Refaei Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9781947602199, ISBN: HB: 9781947602236, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

According to recent research by scholar Lauren Musu-Gillette, college enrollment of traditional-aged students has increased notably in the past twenty years, with significant increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic males and Hispanic...

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