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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.
£52.25
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.
£42.75
The University of Chicago Press Cultivating Differences
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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.
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press The Flight from Ambiguity Essays in Social and
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University of Chicago Press Ring of Liberation Deceptive Discourse in
Book SynopsisBased on eighteen months of intensive participant-observation, Ring of Liberation offers both an in-depth description of capoeira--a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines feats of great strength and athleticism with music and poetry--and a pioneering synthetic approach to the analysis of complex cultural performance. Capoeira originated in early slave culture and is practiced widely today by urban Brazilians and others. At once game, sport, mock combat, and ritualized performance, it involves two players who dance and battle within a ring of musicians and singers. Stunning physical performances combine with music and poetry in a form as expressive in movement as it is in word. J. Lowell Lewis explores the convergence of form and content in capoeira. The many components and characteristics of this elaborate black art form--for example, competing genre frameworks and the necessary fusion of multiple modes of expression--demand, Lewis feels, to be given body as well as voice.In response, he uses Peircean semiotics and recent work in discourse and performance theory to map the connections between physical, musical, and linguistic play in capoeira and to reflect on the general relations between semiotic systems and the creation and recording of cultural meaning.
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Ring of Liberation Deceptive Discourse in
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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.
£28.50
University of Chicago Press Leisure Settings Bourgeois Culture Medicine the
Book SynopsisExploring the links between class identity and vacationing, the text looks at the popularity of France's health resorts in the 19th century. It shows how spas were promoted as an ordered equivalent to the busy lives of the bourgeoisie, and this premier vacation made and was made by the bourgeoisie.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Baths and Curing in the Old Regime 2: Producing Leisure: Economics, Class Formation, and the Sejour for Sale 3: Respectability Emplaced 4: Medicine and the Rhythming of Bourgeois Rest 5: Social Benefits of Spa Consumption Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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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 Anthropology as Cultural Critique An
Book SynopsisUsing cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, this text looks at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study.
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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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University of Chicago Press Zeroing in on the Year 2000 The Final Edition 8
Book SynopsisThe final volume in the series devoted to documenting the diverse social and cultural transitions of the fin-de-siecle, this work offers a look back at the inception and progress of the series.
£38.97
The University of Chicago Press Fundamentalisms and Society Reclaiming the
Book SynopsisProvides a systematic overview of the advances made by anti-secular religious movements since 1972, showing their impact on human relations, education, women's rights and scientific research. This text considers developments within Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism in 12 nations.
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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.
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University of Chicago Press The State of Nature Ecology Community and
Book SynopsisAlthough science may claim to be objective, scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century. Reacting against the view of nature red in tooth and claw, ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.
£99.00
University of Chicago Press American Gay Worlds of Desire
Book SynopsisThis text examines the emergence in America of gay and lesbian social life, the creation of "lesbigay" communities, and the development of a group identity. It also provides coverage of relevant issues such as the extent to which there is a single "modern" homosexuality.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Ch. 1: Social Theory and the Anomalous Development of Gay Resistance Ch. 2: The Growth and Diversification of Gay Culture Ch. 3: After Gay Liberation: S & M and Gender Uniformity? Ch. 4: The Promiscuity Paradigm, AIDS, and Gay Complicity with the Remedicalization of Homosexuality Ch. 5: The Initial Surrender and Eventual Tentative Reassertion of Autonomy under the Shadow of AIDS Ch. 6: "The Homosexual Role" and Lesbigay Roles Ch. 7: Couples Ch. 8: Gay Community Ch. 9: Ethnic and Temporal Differences in Coming Out and In Moving to San Francisco Ch. 10: Absent Laiuses: Psychiatric Fantasies in Black and Gay Ch. 11: Some Gay African American Self-Representations from the 1980s and 1990s Ch. 12: Mexican American Homosexuality Ch. 13: Gay Asian/Pacific Americans Valediction Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press All the Essential HalfTruths about Higher
Book SynopsisArgues that an intelligent debate on the future of higher education in America requires a study of its institutions, not its ideals. Showing how US higher education has changed in the 20th century, this book examines how its institutions respond to financial, technological and cultural change.
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The University of Chicago Press Dreams Illusion and Other Realities
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The University of Chicago Press Impasse of the Angels Scenes from a Moroccan
Book SynopsisExplores what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a southern Moroccan society. Incorporating poetic texts, legends, social spaces, folktales and conversations, this book is a synthesis of dissonant, often idiosyncratic voices from the Maghribi post-colonial present.
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The University of Chicago Press Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolu
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University of Chicago Press Science as Practice and Culture
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The University of Chicago Press Labors Lot The Power History and Culture of
Book SynopsisA study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of productive labour and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies.
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The University of Chicago Press Labors Lot The Power History and Culture of
Book SynopsisA study of the Belyuen community of northern Australia, showing how it draws identity from deep connections between labour, language and the landscape. Povinelli's findings challenge Western notions of productive labour and long-standing ideas about the role of culture in subsistence economies.
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The University of Chicago Press French Modern
Book SynopsisThis study of power/knowledge in France, from the 1830s through the 1930s, uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how the social environment was described. It aims to show how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, and social legislation.
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The University of Chicago Press The Little Community and Peasant Society and
Book SynopsisThis volume combines two classic works of anthropology. The Little Community draws on the author's own notable studies of the villages of Tepoztlan and Chan Kom to explore the means by which scientists try to understand human communities. It contains, wrote Margaret Mead, the essence of Robert Redfield's multifaceted contributions to the place of community studies in social science. Peasant Society and Culture outlines a speculative foundation for the emergence of anthropology from the study of isolated primitive tribes.
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The University of Chicago Press The Poison in the Gift
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The University of Chicago Press The Arabs
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The University of Chicago Press The Kamikaze Biker Paradoy Anomy in Affluent
Book SynopsisIn this firsthand account of high-risk car and motorcycle racing in Japan, Ikuya Sato shows how affluence and consumerism have spawned various experimental and deviant life-styles among youth. Kamikaze Biker offers an intriguing look at a form of delinquency in a country traditionally thought to be devoid of social problems. Ikuya Sato's Kamikaze Biker is an exceptionally fine ethnographic analysis of a recurrent form of Japanese collective youth deviance...Sato has contributed a work of value to a wide range of scholarly audiences.--Jack Katz, Contemporary Sociology A must for anyone interested in Japan, juvenile delinquency and/or youth behavior in general, or the impact of affluence on society.--Choice The volume provides a sophisticated ...discussion of changes happening in Japanese society in the early 1980s. As such, it serves as a window on the 1990s and beyond.--Ross Mouer, Asian Studies Review Kamikaze Biker is a superlative study, one that might help liberate American social science from the simplistic notion that behavior not directly contributing to economic productivity should be summarily dismissed as 'dangerous' and 'deviant.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The University of Chicago Press American Kinship
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The University of Chicago Press Welcome to Middle Age And Other Cultural Fictions
Book SynopsisThe construction of "midlife", most often rendered in chronological, biological and medical terms, has become an accepted reality to European Americans. This study explores the significance of this pervasive cultural representation compared to other cultures where "middle age" does not exist.
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The University of Chicago Press Dance of the Dolphin
Book SynopsisIn Amazonian folktales, dolphins take human form, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. This book examines these stories, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in the Amazon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Invitation to the Dance 1: Time and Place 2: The Storytellers 3: Stories and Beliefs about Dolphins as Special Fish 4: Stories and Beliefs about Dolphins as Supernatural Beings 5: Questions of Performance 6: The Dolphin as Encantado 7: The Dolphin as Lover 8: The Dolphin as White Man 9: Transformation and Disenchantment Appendix 1. Glossary of Selected Terms Appendix 2. Portuguese-Language Originals of Stories in the Text References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dance of the Dolphin Transformation and
Book SynopsisIn Amazonian folktales, dolphins take human form, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. This book examines these stories, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in the Amazon.
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsche Heidegger and the Transition to
Book SynopsisAmong the most influential and enigmatic thinkers of the modern age, Nietzsche and Heidegger have become pivotal in the struggle to define postmodernism. This work offers an examination of the writings of these philosophers.
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The University of Chicago Press Hiding Volume 1996 Religion and Postmodernism
Book SynopsisThe age of information, media and virtuality is transforming many aspects of human experience. This is an investigation of the postmodern world which critically examines a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. The author contends that postmodern culture is full of creative possibilities.
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The University of Chicago Press About Religion Economies of Faith in Virtual
Book SynopsisTravelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street.
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The University of Chicago Press The Mahabharata Volume 3 Book 4 The Book of the
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University of Chicago Press Black Camelot AfricanAmerican Culture Heroes in
Book SynopsisAfter the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged in African-American popular culture. Pop icons such as Mohammad Ali, James Brown and Pam Grier projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. This text discusses the black heroic in American popular culture.
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University of Chicago Press After Pomp Circumstance High School Reunion as
Book SynopsisHigh school reunions force participants to account for themselves, not only to their own satisfaction, but also to the satisfaction of others. This text explores the ongoing construction of identity in American society, and the narratives we tell ourselves about who we are.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: The Research Site and the Attendees 2: Community, Continuity, and the One-Night Stand 3: Reunions as Social Control 4: Autobiography as a Social Endeavor 5: A Memory of a Collective 6: Encountering a Personal Past 7: Managing Discontinuity 8: Between Situated Identity and Personal Identity Conclusion: Reunions and Beyond Appendix Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Culture of Ancient Egypt Phoenix Books
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University of Chicago Press American Congregations Volume 2 New Perspectives
Book SynopsisBuilding upon the empirical foundation provided by the historical studies in the first volume of this project, this book brings together historians, sociologists, theologians and ethicists for an interdisciplinary conversation on the study of American congregations.
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University of Chicago Press Navajo Kinship and Marriage
Book SynopsisThe Navajo are one of the most studied people in the world, yet their social organization is one of the least well understood. In this volume Gary Witherspoon offers a theoretical approach to kinship based on its cultural dimensions.Table of ContentsForeword David M. Schneider Preface 1: Kinship as a Cultural System 2: Mother and Child and the Nature of Kinship 3: Marriage and the Nature of Affinity 4: Father and Child 5: The Descent System 6: The Concepts of Sex, Generation, Sibling Order, and Distance 7: Kinship and Affinal Solidarity as Symbolized in the Enemyway 8: Social Organization in the Rough Rock-Black Mountain Area 9: Residence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 10: Subsistence in the Subsistence Residential Unit 11: Unity in the Subsistence Residential Unit 12: The Navajo Outfit as a Set of Related Subsistence Residential Units 13: The Web of Affinity 14: The Social Universe of the Navajo Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Saints and Postmodernism Revisioning Moral
Book Synopsis"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study." Michael Gareffa, "Theological Studies" "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics." Mark I. Wallace, "Religious Studies Review""
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The University of Chicago Press Recovered Roots Collective Memory and the Making
Book SynopsisBecause new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In this volume Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition.
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Columbia University Press Renaissance Thought and its Sources
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Preface Introduction Part One: Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity Introduction 1. The Humanist Movement 2. The Aristotelian Tradition 3. Renaissance Platonism 4. Paganism and Christianity Part Two: Renaissance Thought and the Middle Ages 5. Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance 6. Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition Part Three: Renaissance Thought and Byzantine Learning 7. Italian Humanism and Byzantium 8. Byzantine and Western Platonism in the Fifteenth Century Part Four: Renaissance Concepts of Man Introduction 9. The Dignity of Man 10. The Immortality of the Soul 11. The Unity of Truth Part Five: Philosophy and Rhetoric From Antiquity to the Renaissance Introduction 12. Classical Antiquity 13. The Middle Ages 14. The Renaissance Notes Index
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Columbia University Press American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam
Book SynopsisProbing the effect of the Vietnam War on the American self-image, the author uses popular culture, literature, and film to study how the myths and symbols of the war reflected the politics of Americans.
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