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Anthropology

Valeri Valerio

ISBN: PB: 9780990505082, University of Chicago Press, HAU, October 2018
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-1998) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Critical Norths Space, Nature, Theory

Ray Sarah Jaquette, Maier Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9781602233195, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2017
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 5 tables

For millennia, "the North" has held a powerful sway in Western culture. Long seen through contradictions – empty of life yet full of promise, populated by indigenous communities yet ripe for conquest, pristine yet marked by a long human history – it...

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Anthropology

Crying for Our Elders African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS

Cheney Kristen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226437545, ISBN: HB: 9780226437408, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa has defined the childhoods of an entire generation. Over the past twenty years, international NGOs and charities have devoted immense attention to the millions of African children orphaned by the disease. But in "Cryin...

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Contemporary Art

Anthropology

Creative Alaska A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013

Haakanson Sven, Steffian Amy

ISBN: HB: 9781602232853, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2017
340 pp., 27.3x27.3 cm, 232 colour plates

Alaska has long been a nurturing home for artists, with its stunning natural beauty, rich cultural life, and unique communities. In recent years, artists in Alaska have had an additional source of support: the awarding of annual grants to craftsmen,...

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Law

Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

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Anthropology

Conquest and Community The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan

Amin Shahid

ISBN: PB: 9780226372600, ISBN: HB: 9780226372570, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as that of the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about the bloody h...

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Anthropology

Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak/Do Not Live Without an Elder The Subsistence Way of Life in Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602232976, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2016
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 52 halftones, 4 maps

In October of 2010, six men who were serving on the board of the Calista Elders Council (CEC) gathered in Anchorage with CEC staff to spend three days speaking about the subsistence way of life. The men shared stories of their early years growing up...

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Anthropology

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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World

Anthropology

Civilisation of Perpetual Movement Nomadism in World Politics

McDonell Nick

ISBN: HB: 9781849043984, Hurst Publishers, January 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! From the Chinese Emperors to the Romans and the Byzantines, from British Foreign Office agents in the Great Game to today's hippies, backpackers and aid workers, a long line of 'civilised', sedentary, peoples have again and aga...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Corn Wolf

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226310855, ISBN: HB: 9780226310718, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones, 16 line drawings

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, "The Corn Wolf" pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has charact...

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