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Culture Studies

Storm Force How Britain Has Been Forged by the Wind

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781909930377, Signal Books, February 2016
288 pp., 22.5x14.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Britain is the windiest country in Europe. The devastating storms of the winter of 2013-4 saw houses collapse into the sea in Norfolk and, on the other side of England, the loss to ferocious waves of a stretch of the main rail...

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Culture Studies

Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display

Tyburczy Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226315249, ISBN: HB: 9780226315102, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

All museums are sex museums. In "Sex Museums", Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using disp...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Stigma and Culture Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

Matory J. Lorand

ISBN: PB: 9780226297736, ISBN: HB: 9780226297569, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing

In "Stigma and Culture", J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States – and around the globe – is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek s...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

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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Media Studies

Culture Studies

Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

Marwick Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Scottish Highlands A Cultural History

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781909930001, Signal Books, October 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Scottish Highlands" form the highest mountains in the British Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotl...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Surgical Temptation The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Darby Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226101101, ISBN: HB: 9780226136455, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfun...

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Criminology

Culture Studies

Subject of Murder Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

Downing Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226003542, ISBN: HB: 9780226003405, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen – a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart f...

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Culture Studies

Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary

Melnick Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194630, Yale University Press, January 2013
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Franks Diary as a poignant voice to tel...

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