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African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...
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£22,50
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Lost Paradise Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
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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Legacies, Logics, Logistics Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy
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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£63,00
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Gifts and Commodities
ISBN: PB: 9780990505013, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2015
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 line drawings, 3 maps, 58 tables
Christopher A. Gregory's "Gifts and Commodities" is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy...
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£26,50
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Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust Africa in Comparison
ISBN: PB: 9780226047614, ISBN: HB: 9780226047584, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Dante's "Inferno", the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in "Witchcraft, Intimac...
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£22,00
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£61,00
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Braided Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780226305288, ISBN: HB: 9780226305271, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps
In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning m...
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Restless Anthropologist New Fieldsites, New Visions
ISBN: PB: 9780226304908, ISBN: HB: 9780226304892, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm
What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The...
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On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
ISBN: PB: 9780226306728, ISBN: HB: 9780226305677, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
296 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm
David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into...
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Producing Local Color Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago
ISBN: HB: 9780226305172, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 7 figures, 2 tables, 2 halftones
In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by these moneyed institutions and their patrons are vibrant, local communities of artists and art lovers operating beneath...
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