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Anthropology

Peoples on Parade Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Qureshi Sadiah

ISBN: HB: 9780226700960, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 117 halftones, 18 colour illus.

In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner", an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londone...

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Music

Law

Pop Song Piracy Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929

Kernfeld Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226431833, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones, 7 line illus.

The music industry's ongoing battle against digital piracy is just the latest skirmish in a long conflict over who has the right to distribute music. Starting with music publishers' efforts to stamp out bootleg compilations of lyric sheets in 1929, B...

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Law

Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It

Burk Dan L., Lemley Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226080628, ISBN: HB: 9780226080611, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system currently stands, diverse industries from pharmaceuticals to software to semiconductors are all governed by the same rules even though they innovate very differentl...

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Nature

Peru: Maijuna

Gilmore Michael P., Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., Campo del Alvaro, May von Rudolf, Lopez Wong Cristina, Rios Ochoa Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780982841907, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2011
328 pp., 27.3x21 cm

In July of 2009 a team of socio-economic experts from the United States and Peru conducted a social asset inventory of the ancestral territory of the Maijuna indigenous people in northeastern Peru in order to identify patterns of social organization...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Privilege of Crisis Narratives of Masculinities in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Photography, and Film

Yekani Elahe Haschemi

ISBN: PB: 9783593393995, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2011
320 pp., 22x14 cm

Despite the understanding of scholars that masculinity, far from being a natural or stable concept, is in reality a social construction, the culture at large continues to privilege an idealized, coherent male point of view".The Privilege of Crisis" d...

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History

Passionate Triangle

Zorach Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226989396, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
280 pp., 24x16 cm, 86 halftones, 8 colour illus.

Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe – the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance a...

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History of Art

Pamphilj and the Arts Patronage and Consumption in Baroque Rome

Leone Stephanie C.

ISBN: PB: 9781892850171, University of Chicago Press, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, July 2011
200 pp., 30.5x21.5 cm, 101 halftones, 15 colour illus.

In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the arts, which were harnessed as the visual expression of the family's new id...

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Culture Studies

Philadelphia Barrio The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation

Wherry Frederick F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894324, ISBN: HB: 9780226894317, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 7 tables, 23 halftones, 2 line illus.

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? Does gentrificat...

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Islam

Prophecy in Islam Philosophy and Orthodoxy

Rahman Fazlur

ISBN: PB: 9780226702858, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 20x13 cm

This highly regarded volume was the first to explore the doctrine of prophetic revelation, a critical and definitive area of Islamic religious and political thought. In it, the esteemed Islamic scholar Fazlur Rahman traces the inception of this doctr...

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Education

Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited China, Japan, and the United States

Tobin Joseph, Hsueh Yeh, Karasawa Mayumi

ISBN: PB: 9780226805047, ISBN: HB: 9780226805030, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 95 halftones

Published twenty years ago, the original "Preschool in Three Cultures" was a landmark in the study of education: a profoundly enlightening exploration of the different ways preschoolers are taught in China, Japan, and the United States. Here, lead au...

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