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Sex and Salvation Imagining the Future in Madagascar
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...
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Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
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...
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Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic
ISBN: PB: 9781602230118, ISBN: HB: 9781602230262, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
160 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.
This study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their ability to communicate with supernatural beings, such as Sedna t...
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Story of Lynx
ISBN: PB: 9780226474724, ISBN: HB: 9780226474717, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
294 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 3 maps, 20 tables
"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the...
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Structural Anthropology, Volume 2
ISBN: PB: 9780226474915, University of Chicago Press, February 1983
500 pp., 23x15 cm
The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology". As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structur...
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Savage Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780226474847, University of Chicago Press, September 1968
310 pp., 23x15 cm
Preface 1. The Science of the Concrete 2. The Logic of Totemic Classifications 3. Systems of Transformations 4. Totem and Caste 5. Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers 6. Universalization and Particularization 7. The Individual as a Species 8. Time...
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£13,50
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