ISBN: PB: 9780226113319,
ISBN: HB: 9780226113302,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2010
236 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 14 halftones
"Sex and Salvation" chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization. Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women have entered t...
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...
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...
ISBN: PB: 9780913516218,
Yale University Press,
November 2010
198 pp.,
24.5x17.2 cm, 12 charts, 60 black&white illus.
This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian Scientific Expeditions analyzes th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...