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Theory of African Music, Volume II
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456942, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456935, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
408 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 32 line drawings, 35 figures, 60 halftones
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...
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£25,50
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£78,00
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Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226305172, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 7 figures, 2 tables, 2 halftones
In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath...
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£42,00
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Theory of African Music, Volume I
ISBN: PB + CD: 9780226456911, ISBN: HB + CD: 9780226456904, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
464 pp., 20.9x13.4 cm, 113 musical examples, 9 maps, 32 line drawings, 14 figures, 13 tables, 64 halftones
Taken together, these comprehensive volumes offer an authoritative account of the music of Africa. One of the most prominent experts on the subject, Gerhard Kubik draws on his extensive travels and three decades of study in many parts of the continen...
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Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...
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Erotic Triangles Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java
ISBN: PB: 9780226769592, ISBN: HB: 9780226769585, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 musical examples, 14 line drawings, 13 tables, 8 halftones
In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman's voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there – be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen – breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to th...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Islands of Privacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226586533, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables, 2 halftones
Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory, concerns over the use and abuse of personal information are undeniable. But t...
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£18,00
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Heart for the Work Journeys through an African Medical School
ISBN: PB: 9780226893273, ISBN: HB: 9780226893259, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables, 1 halftone
Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as "A Heart for the Work" makes...
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£24,00
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£70,50
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Nostalgia for the Future West Africa after the Cold War
ISBN: PB: 9780226669656, ISBN: HB: 9780226669649, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones
Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and...
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£21,00
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£60,00
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New Metaphysicals Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226042800, ISBN: HB: 9780226042794, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm
American spirituality – with its focus on individual meaning, experience, and exploration – is usually thought to be a product of the postmodern era. But, as "The New Metaphysicals" makes clear, contemporary American spirituality has historic roots i...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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