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Dancing with the River People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
ISBN: HB: 9780300188301, Yale University Press, June 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
This remarkable book provides a rare look at the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" – an increasingly popular topic among geographers and environmentalists – by examining chars, which are part-land, part-water, low-lying, sandy masses within th...
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£57,00
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Place That Matters Yet John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World
ISBN: PB: 9780226030302, ISBN: HB: 9780226030272, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones
"A Place That Matters Yet" unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg's MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before,...
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£31,00
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£91,00
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Demands of the Day On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
ISBN: PB: 9780226036915, ISBN: HB: 9780226036885, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
144 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables
"Demands of the Day" asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "d...
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£21,00
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£55,00
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Monastery in Time The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
ISBN: PB: 9780226031903, ISBN: HB: 9780226031873, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 6 halftones
"A Monastery in Time" is the first book to describe the life of a Mongolian Buddhist monastery – the Mergen Monastery in Inner Mongolia – from inside its walls. From the Qing occupation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the Cultural...
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£26,00
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£73,00
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Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226019567, ISBN: HB: 9780226019420, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...
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£22,50
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£73,00
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Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
ISBN: HB: 9780226322810, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
632 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 maps, 2 tables, 53 halftones
The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material – rubber – with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon, a decades-long conflict that found Britain, Fr...
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£39,00
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Anthropology A Continental Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780226925073, ISBN: HB: 9780226925066, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones
Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's "Anthropology" sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science,...
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£31,00
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£91,00
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Confluences An American Expedition to Burma, 1935
ISBN: PB: 9780300190236, Yale University Press, March 2013
176 pp., 22.2x17.8 cm, 75 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
In January 1935, the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition departed from Rangoon to explore the Chindwin River valley on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. The party traversed northern Burma, gathering biological specimens and ethnologica...
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£25,00
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Return from the Natives How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780300187854, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most...
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£30,00
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Global Pigeon
ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...
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£26,00
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£69,00
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