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Mission of Change in Southwest Alaska Conversations with Father Rene Astruc and Paul Dixon on Their Work with Yup'ik People
ISBN: PB: 9781602231610, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2012
346 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 25 halftones
"Mission of Change" is an oral history describing various types of change – political, social, cultural, and religious – as seen through the eyes of Father Astruc and Paul Dixon, non-Natives who dedicated their lives to working with the Yup'ik people...
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£26,50
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Laughing at Leviathan Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
ISBN: PB: 9780226731988, ISBN: HB: 9780226731971, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 halftones
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interloc...
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£25,50
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£84,00
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Restless Anthropologist New Fieldsites, New Visions
ISBN: PB: 9780226304908, ISBN: HB: 9780226304892, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm
What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The...
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£22,50
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£70,00
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Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...
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£30,00
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£100,00
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Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
ISBN: PB: 9780226568195, ISBN: HB: 9780226568188, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
168 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm
Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer – but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In "Alive in the Writing" – an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis – anthropologist an...
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£17,50
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£50,00
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Cuban Fiestas
ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.
In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...
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£16,99
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Islanders The Pacific in the Age of Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780300180565, Yale University Press, January 2012
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. Unlike conventional accounts that emphasize confrontation and the des...
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£16,99
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Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9781555001131, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
720 pp., 49x33 cm
This exquisitely illustrated and extensive map charts the peoples and languages of Alaska natives. The author, who founded the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and directed it until 2000, was responsible for assembl...
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£11,50
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Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries
ISBN: PB: 9781602231467, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
312 pp., 25.5x18 cm
For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British...
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£34,00
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I Swear I Saw This Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
ISBN: PB: 9780226789835, ISBN: HB: 9780226789828, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
176 pp., 22x14 cm, 30 halftones
"I Swear I Saw This" records visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig's reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taking as a starting point a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006 – as well as its capti...
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£18,00
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£48,00
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