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Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco
ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table
In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...
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£20,50
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Pottery Analysis A Sourcebook (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226923215, ISBN: HB: 9780226923208, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
592 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 halftones, 124 line drawings, 49 tables
Just as a single pot starts with a lump of clay, the study of a piece's history must start with an understanding of its raw materials. This principle is the foundation of "Pottery Analysis", the acclaimed sourcebook that has become the indispensable...
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£41,50
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£120,00
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Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia
ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones
"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...
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£37,00
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Designs on the Contemporary Anthropological Tests
ISBN: PB: 9780226138473, ISBN: HB: 9780226138336, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
"Designs on the Contemporary" pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John D...
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£21,00
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£54,00
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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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Designing Human Practices An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226703145, ISBN: HB: 9780226703138, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 tables
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center – a facility established t...
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£27,00
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£69,00
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Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
ISBN: PB: 9780226703626, ISBN: HB: 9780226703619, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
464 pp., 23x15 cm
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in "Street Therapists", examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the naviga...
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£100,00
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Laughing at Leviathan Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
ISBN: PB: 9780226731988, ISBN: HB: 9780226731971, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 halftones
For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interloc...
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£25,50
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£84,00
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Accompaniment Assembling the Contemporary
ISBN: PB: 9780226701707, ISBN: HB: 9780226701691, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
248 pp., 22x14 cm
In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry. He begins with an ext...
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£24,00
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£58,50
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Made to Be Seen Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9780226036625, ISBN: HB: 9780226036618, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
432 pp., 25x15 cm, 27 halftones
"Made to be Seen" brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to "...
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£34,50
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£103,00
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