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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Archives of the Insensible Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory

Feldman Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780226277332, ISBN: HB: 9780226277165, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones

In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to...

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Spirits and the Law Vodou and Power in Haiti

Ramsey Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780226703800, ISBN: HB: 9780226703794, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
448 pp., 23.1x16.3 cm, 2 maps, 18 halftones

Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti's problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation's founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both be...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Return to Casablanca Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist

Levy Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226292557, ISBN: HB: 9780226292410, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history – from the Jewish...

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Corn Wolf

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226310855, ISBN: HB: 9780226310718, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones, 16 line drawings

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, "The Corn Wolf" pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has charact...

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Music

Culture Studies

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...

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Culture Studies

What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants

Harris Stephen A.

ISBN: HB: 9781851244478, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet? Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Fro...

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General

Culture Studies

Fast, Easy, and In Cash Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy

Colloredo-Mansfeld Rudi, Antrosio Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226302614, ISBN: HB: 9780226302584, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 30 halftones, 7 line drawings

"Artisan" has become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving rea...

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Market Day in Provence

de La Pradelle Michele, Jacobs Amy

ISBN: PB: 9780226141855, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

At farmers' markets, we expect to see fruit bursting with juicy sweetness and vegetables greener than a golf course. For Michele de La Pradelle these expectations are mostly the result of a show performed by merchants and sustained by our propensity...

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Non-Sovereign Futures French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment

Bonilla Yarimar

ISBN: PB: 9780226283814, ISBN: HB: 9780226283784, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions – or even paradoxes – in our current postcolonial era. In "Non-Sovereign Futures", Yarimar Bonilla w...

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Culture Studies

Urban Appetites Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

Lobel Cindy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226322674, ISBN: HB: 9780226128757, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international no...

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