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Anthropology

Fate of Rural Hell Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand

Anderson Benedict

ISBN: PB: 9780857424020, Seagull Books, October 2016
99 pp., 19.8x13.9 cm, 24 colour illus.

In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizarre...

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Anthropology

Frontier Shores Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania

Rowlands Shawn C.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792070, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, September 2016
128 pp., 22.2x17.7 cm, 47 colour plates

In the late nineteenth century, the growing discipline of anthropology was both a powerful tool of colonial control and an ideological justification for it. As European empires and their commercial reach expanded, different populations became intertw...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Four Lectures on Ethics Anthropological Perspectives

Lambek Michael, Das Veena, Fassin Didier, Keane Webb

ISBN: PB: 9780990505075, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field – Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Di...

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Anthropology

Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska

Marino Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9781602232662, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 4 photos, 10 figures

With three roads and a population of just over 500 people, Shishmaref, Alaska seems like an unlikely center of the climate change debate. But the island, home to Inupiaq Eskimos who still live off subsistence harvesting, is falling into the sea, and...

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Anthropology

General

Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia

Rottger-Rossler Birgitt, Stodulka Thomas

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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Anthropology

Far Afield French Anthropology between Science and Literature

Debaene Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780226107066, ISBN: HB: 9780226106908, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary ac...

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Frontier Romance Environment, Culture, and Alaska Identity

Kleinfeld Judith

ISBN: PB: 9781602231894, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2012
90 pp., 23x15 cm

Anyone curious about what drew people like Christopher McCandless (the subject of "Into the Wild") and John Muir to Alaska will find nuanced answers in "Frontier Romance", Judith Kleinfeld's thoughtful study of the iconic American love of the frontie...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Flaming Feet and Other Essays The Dalit Movement in India

Nagaraj D. R.

ISBN: HB: 9781906497804, Seagull Books, March 2011
282 pp., 22.1x15.2 cm

In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics – the Dalit being a self-designatio...

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Anthropology

From Land to Mouth The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300142266, Yale University Press, December 2010
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 172 black&white illus.

Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.

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Ecology

Anthropology

Forest Futures Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas

Linkenbach Antje

ISBN: PB: 9781905422524, ISBN: HB: 9781905422517, Seagull Books, February 2008
344 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 8 halftones, 4 maps, 10 tables, 13 figures

Under their slogan, "Ecology is permanent economy", the "Chipko Movement" drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Taking its name from the Hindi word for 'embrace', villagers hugged trees and prevented contractors´ from felling them....

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