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Anthropology

History

Hawking Incorporated Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

Mialet Helene

ISBN: PB: 9780226522289, ISBN: HB: 9780226522265, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the pe...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Moss Madonna L., Cannon Aubrey

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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Anthropology

General

Cultural Evolution How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences

Mesoudi Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226520445, ISBN: HB: 9780226520438, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 11 line illus.

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian...

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Anthropology

Education

Tales of the Field On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition

Maanen John

ISBN: PB: 9780226849645, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
232 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the Field" has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detai...

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Performing Arts

Anthropology

Theatre of Roots Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage

Mee Erin B.

ISBN: PB: 9781905422760, ISBN: HB: 9781905422753, Seagull Books, November 2008
432 pp., 23x15.6 cm, 24 halftones

After Independence, in 1947, in their efforts to create an "Indian" theatre that was different from the Westernized, colonial theatre, Indian theatre practitioners began returning to their "roots" in classical dance, religious ritual, martial arts, p...

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