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History

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial History of Victorian Science

Flandreau Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226360447, ISBN: HB: 9780226360300, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, "Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange" tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of gl...

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Comparing Impossibilities Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore

Falk Moore Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780986132551, University of Chicago Press, HAU, June 2016
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives...

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Buddhism

Anthropology

Subject to Death Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

Desjarlais Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226355870, ISBN: HB: 9780226355733, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 1 table

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death's enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With "Subject to Death", Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists...

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Sea Life

Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project

Lord Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...

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Anthropology

Gift Expanded Edition

Mauss Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9780990505006, University of Chicago Press, HAU, May 2016
237 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss' masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss' classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the...

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Patina A Profane Archaeology

Lee Dawdy Shannon

ISBN: PB: 9780226351193, ISBN: HB: 9780226351056, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the world reacted with shock on seeing residents of this distinctive city left abandoned to the floodwaters. After the last rescue was completed, a new worry arose – that New Orleans's unique historic fabric...

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Anguyiim Nalliini / Time of Warring The History of Bow-and-Arrow Warfare in Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602232914, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 8 maps

This book draws on little-known oral histories from the Yup'ik people of southwest Alaska to detail a period of bow-and-arrow warfare that took place in the region between 1300 and 1800. The result of more than thirty years of research, discussion, a...

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Legacies, Logics, Logistics Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy

Guyer Jane I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226326870, ISBN: HB: 9780226326733, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Legacies, Logics, Logistics" brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined...

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Music

Anthropology

Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

Glasser Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226327235, ISBN: HB: 9780226327068, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoir...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Anthropology

What Is Paleolithic Art? Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Clottes Jean

ISBN: PB: 9780226266633, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 2 line drawings

Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was...

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