art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
ISBN: PB: 9780300251630,
Yale University Press,
December 2019
656 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps
656 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of...
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£12,99
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Arctic Folly
The Anthropology of a Delusion
Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a corpus including the first grammar of an Amerindian language and an astonishing body of transcribed ritua...
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£15,00
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Art of Mbira
Musical Inheritance and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9780226628684,
ISBN: HB: 9780226628547,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2019
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples
608 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 302 musical examples
Growing out of the collaborative research of an American ethnomusicologist and Zimbabwean musician, Paul F. Berliner's The Art of Mbira documents the repertory for a keyboard instrument known generally as mbira. At the heart of this work lies the ana...
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£36,00
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£102,00
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Between the Sun and Snow
Writing at the End of the Century
ISBN: PB: 9781940939384,
University of Chicago Press,
2Leaf Press,
November 2019
225 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 45 halftones
225 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 45 halftones
"Entre el sol y la nieve: escritos de fin de siglo / Between the Sun and Snow: Writing at the End of the Century" presents a collection of selected newspaper articles by writer, cultural activist, and educator Myrna Nieves. The articles in this bilin...
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£19,00
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Cultural Histories of the Material World
ISBN: PB: 9781941792186,
University of Chicago Press,
Bard Graduate Center,
November 2019
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
295 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bringing together the work of over twenty international scholars from various disciplines, "Cultural Histories of the Material World" provides a substantial collection of works that explore materiality and material culture from a historical perspecti...
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£19,00
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Ethics of Space
Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England
Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to fin...
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£27,00
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For Money and Elders
Ritual, Sovereignty, and the Sacred in Kenya
ISBN: PB: 9780226655758,
ISBN: HB: 9780226655611,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2019
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch. Yet efforts from critics and academics to diagnose...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Fake
Anthropological Keywords
ISBN: PB: 9780997367577,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
November 2019
120 pp., 17.7x10 cm, 6 halftones
120 pp., 17.7x10 cm, 6 halftones
Fakes, forgery, counterfeits, hoaxes, frauds, knock-offs – such terms speak, ostensibly, to the inverse of truth or the obverse of authenticity and sincerity. Do all cultures equally spend an incredible amount of energy and labor on detecting differe...
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£11,50
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Anthropology and Life Itself
In recent years life itself has become a focus of intense thought in anthropological work, spanning concerns as diverse as concepts of life in the biosciences and sovereign power and biopolitics, to a rethinking of the boundaries between human and no...
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£22,50
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Artfulness of Death in Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781789141238,
Reaktion Books,
November 2019
288 pp., 24.6x18.9 cm, 89 illus., 50 in colour
288 pp., 24.6x18.9 cm, 89 illus., 50 in colour
If weddings are the most lavish events in most parts of the world, in Sub-Saharan Africa, by contrast, it is funerals. Funeral celebrations can be flamboyant occasions, particularly those honouring prominent people. Artworks of many kinds are created...
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£35,00
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