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Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
ISBN: PB: 9780226392837, ISBN: HB: 9780226392660, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 6 line drawings
Derivatives were responsible for one of the worst financial meltdowns we have ever seen, one from which we have not yet fully recovered. However, they are likewise capable of generating some of the most incredible wealth we have ever seen. This book...
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Displaying Death and Animating Life Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226144061, ISBN: HB: 9780226144054, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have co...
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Deaf Space in Adamorobe An Ethnographic Study in a Village in Ghana
ISBN: HB: 9781563686320, Gallaudet University Press, April 2015
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 11 figures, 24 photos
Shared signing communities consist of a relatively high number of hereditarily deaf people living together with hearing people in relative isolation. In the United States, Martha's Vineyard gained mythical fame as a paradise for deaf people where eve...
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£60,00
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Data Now Bigger and Better!
ISBN: PB: 9780984201068, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2015
104 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
Data is too big to be left to the data analysts".Data: Now Bigger and Better!" brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology – frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinsh...
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Dangerous Idea The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
ISBN: PB: 9781602232396, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2014
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alas...
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£19,00
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Designs on the Contemporary Anthropological Tests
ISBN: PB: 9780226138473, ISBN: HB: 9780226138336, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 tables
"Designs on the Contemporary" pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John D...
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£21,00
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£54,00
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Dancing with the River People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
ISBN: HB: 9780300188301, Yale University Press, June 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
This remarkable book provides a rare look at the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" – an increasingly popular topic among geographers and environmentalists – by examining chars, which are part-land, part-water, low-lying, sandy masses within th...
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£57,00
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Demands of the Day On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
ISBN: PB: 9780226036915, ISBN: HB: 9780226036885, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
144 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 tables
"Demands of the Day" asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "d...
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Designing Human Practices An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226703145, ISBN: HB: 9780226703138, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 tables
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center – a facility established t...
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£69,00
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