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Christianity

More Than God Demands Politics and Influence of Christian Missions in Northwest Alaska, 1897-1918

Urvina Anthony, Urvina Sally

ISBN: PB: 9781602232938, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 map

Near the turn of the twentieth century, the territorial government of Alaska put its support behind a project led by Christian missionaries to convert Alaska Native peoples – and, along the way, bring them into "civilized" American citizenship. Estab...

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Anthropology

Relative Native Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds

de Castro Eduardo Viveiros

ISBN: PB: 9780990505037, University of Chicago Press, HAU, March 2016
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 figures

This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major vol...

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Anthropology

Siege of the Spirits Community and Polity in Bangkok

Herzfeld Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226331614, ISBN: HB: 9780226331584, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 map

What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story o...

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History

Anthropology

Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980

Morris-Reich Amos

ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones

"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew Entangled Lives in Morocco

Rosen Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780226317489, ISBN: HB: 9780226317342, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones, 1 table

In this remarkable work by seasoned scholar Lawrence Rosen, we follow the fascinating intellectual developments of four ordinary Moroccans over the span of forty years. Walking and talking with Haj Hamed Britel, Yaghnik Driss, Hussein Qadir, and Shim...

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Anthropology

Philosophy

Four Lectures on Ethics Anthropological Perspectives

Lambek Michael, Das Veena, Fassin Didier, Keane Webb

ISBN: PB: 9780990505075, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field – Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Di...

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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

Mother Figured Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal

de la Cruz Deirdre

ISBN: PB: 9780226314914, ISBN: HB: 9780226314884, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Throughout history, Mary has inspired in a multitude of cultures around the world a deep affection, a desire to emulate her virtue, and a strong belief in the power o...

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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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Anthropology

Linguistics

Translating Worlds The Epistemological Space of Translation

Severi Carlo, Hanks William F.

ISBN: PB: 9780986132513, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2015
245 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

Set against the backdrop of anthropology's recent focus on various "turns" (whether ontological, ethical, or otherwise), this pathbreaking volume returns to the question of knowledge and the role of translation as a theoretical and ethnographic guide...

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