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The University of Chicago Press The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
Book SynopsisIn this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as the 'cultural' element in culture, and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a discourse of resistance, a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.
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The University of Chicago Press The Italian Way Food and Social Life
Book SynopsisOutside of Italy, the country's culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. This book elucidates the guiding principle of the Italian table - a delicate balance between the structure of tradition and the joy of improvisation. It presents the history of food in Italy, including the 500-old story of the country's cookbooks.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Museum on the Roof of the World Art Politics
Book SynopsisFor millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. This book addresses the question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany A Social
Book SynopsisExamining the life reform movements of early 20th century Germans, and the obsession with perfect health and beauty, Micahel Hau demonstrates why so many people were drawn to aesthetic ideals and their impact on German society and medicine.
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The University of Chicago Press Pattys Got a Gun
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The University of Chicago Press Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret
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The University of Chicago Press Sambia Sexual Culture Essays from the Field
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation; and the creation of a third sex in nature and culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South
Book SynopsisIn Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call style anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. As Nakassis shows, while signs of the global, modern world are everywhere in post-liberalization India, for most of these young people this world is still very distanta paradox that results in youth's profound sense of being in between. This in-betweenness manifests itself in the ambivalent quality of style, the ways in which stylish objects are necessarily marked as counterfeit, mixed, or ironical. In order to show how this in-betweenness materializes in particular media, Nakassis explores the entanglements between youth peer groups and the sites where such stylish media objects are produced, arguing that these entanglements deeply condition the production and circulation of the media objects themselves. The result is an important and timely look at the tremendous forces of youth culture, globalization, and mass media as they interact in the vibrancy of a rapidly changing India.
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The University of Chicago Press Portrait of a Greek Imagination An Ethnographic
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the drafty courtyard of a public library. This encounter led to an enduring intellectual relationship that prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Portrait of a Greek Imagination, part biography and part ethnography, is Herzfeld's contextualization of Nenedakis's life, as it was both lived and fictionalized. Herzfeld explores how personal vision intersects with national cultures by examining the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts. Bringing together the methods of the novelist and the anthropologist in their common concern with both social and lived experience, Herzfeld shows how different perspectives shape the historical record. Nenedakis has endured persecution, exile, imprisonment, and torture under Greece's military dictatorship, and his novelsexcerpted here in English for the first timeoffer an individual version of historical events. As one of his characters ask, For was not his life, and are not the lives of all of us, a novel?
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The University of Chicago Press Foucault and the Kamasutra The Courtesan the
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The University of Chicago Press The Modernist City An Anthropological Critique of
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The University of Chicago Press The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the life, thought and art of 14th and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. For the author, this period marked an important phase of medieval life and thought. First published in 1919, this English edition has all previous mis-translations corrected.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis is a portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. Regarded as an historical classic by many scholars, it has also been criticized and incorrectly translated. This edition corrects changes made by other translators to the original Dutch text of 1919.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Groovy Science Knowledge Innovation and American
Book SynopsisIn his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science as if from a place inhabited by plague, and even seeking subversion of the scientific worldview itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living. Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in scienceof a certain type. Rejecting hulking, militarized technical projects like Cold War missiles and mainframes, Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate high. Groovy Science explores the experi
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press At Stake Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in
Book SynopsisThe media uses variations of the word monster to describe unthinkable acts of violence. This work explores the social construction of monstrousness in public discourse - tabloids, television, magazines, sermons, and poular fiction - arguing that the monster serves as a moralizing function.
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The University of Chicago Press Juvenescence
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The University of Chicago Press Discourses of the Vanishing
Book SynopsisAnxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. This ethnographic, historical and cultural study examines marginalized events, sites and cultural practices in Japan.
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The University of Chicago Press Terror and Wonder
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the extraordinary ways that architecture mirrors our values - and shapes our everyday lives. This title gathers the best of the author's writings along with reflections on an era framed by the destruction of the World Trade Center and the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper.Trade Review"An elegant and thought-provoking book.... Crisp and colorful, expert and witty, Kamin's involving essays address the complexities of architecture and how the built world affects every aspect of life." (Booklist) "Chicago is lucky to have Kamin, whose architectural criticism in that city's Tribune continues the spirited tradition of Allan Temko and Ada Louise Huxtable. This collection from the past decade shows a deft eye for the latest Windy City tower but also the larger weave of culture and design." (San Francisco Chronicle) "Kamin is a keen, trenchant observer of the contemporary urban scene, and his engaging criticism enjoys a welcome second life in this anthology." (Choice) "A highly informative and accessible survey of the architecture and planning of the past decade.... Poignant and timely." (Architect's Newspaper) "[Kamin] reminds us of the role buildings have in our economic and physical environment and how the past decade has changed how we interact with the structures around us." (Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace, Best Books of 2010) "Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize - winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, thoughtfully and provocatively defines the emotional and cultural dimensions of architecture. He is one of the nation's leading voices for design that uplifts and enhances life as well as the environment. Terror and Wonder assembles some of his best writing from the past ten years." (Huffington Post)"
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The University of Chicago Press Custom and Confrontation The Kwaio Struggle for
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The University of Chicago Press Crafting Selves
Book SynopsisThe ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature.Paul H. Noguchi, American AnthropologistKondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish identities.Nancy Rosenberger, Journal of Asian Studies
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The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
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The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
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The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
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The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
Book SynopsisPart of a series which studies the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. Volume III, Book One examines Christian missions, trade and conquest in the East and the histories, reports, letterbooks and travelogues of 17th-century Europe.
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The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
Book SynopsisPart of Volume III of a series which traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science and religion since the Renaissance. The books of the third volume of this work cover the 17th century.
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The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
Book SynopsisPart of Volume III of a series which traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science and religion since the Renaissance. The books of the third volume of this work cover the 17th century.
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe
Book SynopsisPart of Volume III of a series which traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science and religion since the Renaissance. The books of the third volume of this work cover the 17th century.
£52.25
The University of Chicago Press Cultivating Differences
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The University of Chicago Press Structuring Diversity Ethnographic Perspectives
Book SynopsisThrough ethnographic research, sociologists and anthropologists explore the interaction of America's newcomers with established residents in six cities. Their analysis highlights the importance of class and power as immigrants interact in the workplace, at home, at school, and in community organizations.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cultural Territories of Race Black and White
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s social scientists have been reluctant to discuss the cultural dimensions of racial inequality - not wanting to blame the victim for having wrong values. This text employs cultural analysis toward an understanding of how cultural structures articulate the black/white problem.
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The University of Chicago Press Vodou Nation Haitian Art Music and Cultural
Book SynopsisExamines art music by Haitian and African American composers who were inspired by Haiti's history as a nation created by slave revolt. This title also highlights the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences.Trade Review"Vodou Nation investigates the lives and works of the principal Haitian elite composers who sought cosmopolitan respect as well as national acceptance through the production of nationalist art music. It is also the story of those who followed such musical trends and consumed Haitian elite music and culture. Entertaining and tightly organized, this book explores insightfully the role of art music in mediating tensions in postcolonial societies." - Gage Averill, University of Toronto"
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The University of Chicago Press The Electronic Word
Book SynopsisThe personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself. This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself. Persuading us with uncommon grace and power that the move from book to screen gives cause for optimism, not despair, Lanham proclaims that electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western arts but to fulfill them. The Electronic Word is also available as a Chicago Expanded Book for your Macintosh. This hypertext edition allows readers to move freely through the text, marking pages, annotating passages, searching words and phrases, and immediately accessing annotations, which have been enhanced for this edition. In a special prefatory essay, Lanham introduces the features of this electronic edition and gives a vividly applied critique of this dynamic new edition.
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The University of Chicago Press Rodeo An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and
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The University of Chicago Press Exotics at Home Anthropologies Others and
Book SynopsisAttempting to define the exotic, this text focuses on the shifting relations between popular portrayals of exotic "others" and the practice of anthropology, seeking to cast light on gender, race and the public sphere in America's history.
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The University of Chicago Press The Flight from Ambiguity Essays in Social and
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The University of Chicago Press Ring of Liberation Deceptive Discourse in
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£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Just Words
Book SynopsisIs it just words when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it just words when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application o
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The University of Chicago Press The Laws of Cool
Book SynopsisKnowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm. But what perspective can the knowledge of humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what of the role of information technology as both servant of the knowledge economy and medium of a new technological cool?
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The University of Chicago Press Curators of the Buddha The Study of Buddhism
Book SynopsisA critical history of the study of Buddhism in the West, incorporating insights of colonial and post-colonial cultural studies. Social, political and cultural conditions that have shaped the course of Buddhist studies are discussed.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press The Trials of Masculinity Policing Sexual
Book SynopsisIn this history of manhood and masculinity, the author argues that modern formulations of masculinity, despite any sense of naturalness and constancy, are in fact, idealized cultural products of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The University of Chicago Press Cassette Culture Popular Music and Technology in
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The University of Chicago Press Perilous States Conversations on Culture Politics
Book SynopsisThe first volume of Late Editions presents conversations between American scholars, most of whom are anthropologists, and individuals situated amidst political and social upheaval with whom they share affinities. The cast is primarily but not exclusively from Eastern Europe.Table of Contents1 Introduction to the Series and to Volume 1, George E. Marcus 2 Dirges for Soviets Passed, Bruce Grant 3 Returning to Eastern Europe, Kathryn Milun 4 Six to Eight Characters in Search of Armenian Society amidst the Carnivalization of History, Michael M. J. Fischer and Stella Grigorian 5 Two Urban Shamans: Unmasking Leadership in Fin-de-Soviet Siberia, Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer 6 Racism and the Formation of a Romani Ethnic Leader, Sam Beck 7 Working through the Other: The Jewish, Spanish, Turkish, Iranian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and German Unconscious of Polish Culture; or, One Hand Clapping: Dialogue, Silences, and the Mourning of Polish Romanticism, Michael M. J. Fischer and Leszek Koczanowicz 8 Greek Woman in the Europe of 1992: Brokers of European Cargoes and the Logic of the West, Eleni Papagaroufali and Nia Georges 9 Illicit Discourse, Douglas R. Holmes 10 The Outlaw State and the Lone Rangers, Julie Taylor 11 A Terrible Commitment: Balancing the Tribes in South African National Culture, David B. Coplan 12 A Preview of Volume 2 (1994): Reflections on Fieldwork in Alameda, Paul Rabinow
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The University of Chicago Press Paranoia within Reason A Casebook on Conspiracy
Book SynopsisThis text examines conspiracy theories and tackles paranoia as a style of debate within science, psychotherapy, and popular entertainment. A conspiracy theory emerges as a way to address the inadequacies of rational expertise and organization in the face of the changes that undermine them.
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The University of Chicago Press Modern American Religion Volume 2 The Noise of
Book SynopsisIn this second volume of two tracing the history of 20th-century American religion, Martin E. Marty tells the story of how America has survived religious disturbances and culturally prospered from them.
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The University of Chicago Press In Search of Dreamtime The Quest for the Origin
Book SynopsisObserves that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Historians of religion have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself.
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The University of Chicago Press ExtremeOccident French Intellectuals and America
Book SynopsisA systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron.
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The University of Chicago Press The Future of Academic Freedom
Book SynopsisIn this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom.
£24.00
University of Chicago Press Edward Said Continuing the Conversation A
Book SynopsisIn Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they left off following his death in the fall of 2003.
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