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The University of Chicago Press Knowledge and Social Imagery Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book.
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University of Chicago Press Freak Show
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The University of Chicago Press Affinities and Extremes Crisscrossing the
Book SynopsisExamining representations of Balinese culture in complex contexts of Indonesia's colonial history, Hindu ritual practice as opposed to Islam, and comparative Indo-European hierarchies, Boon offers a powerful critique of doctrinal approaches to culture, religion, literature, politics, and the history of ideas and disciplines.
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The University of Chicago Press Crossing the Postmodern Divide
Book SynopsisA guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, that charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Closure and Transition Introduction Sullenness Hyperactivity 2. Modernism The Rise of Modernism Aggressive Realism Methodical Universalism Ambiguous Individualism 3. Postmodernism The Postmodern Critique The Postmodern Economy 4. Hypermodernism The Power and Ambiguity of Postmodernism Hyperreality Hyperactivity Hyperintelligence 5. Postmodern Realism Moral Decisions and Material Culture Focal Realism Patient Vigor Communal Celebration Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Being a Parasite
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The University of Chicago Press Misery and Company
Book SynopsisCandace Clark here seeks to identify the role sympathy plays in constructing the social order of American society. She explores the difference it makes for individuals, for relationships and for group solidarity if one person gives or withholds sympathy from another.
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The University of Chicago Press Modernity and Its Malcontents Ritual and Power in
Book SynopsisWhat role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.
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The University of Chicago Press Of Revelation and Revolution Volume 2 The
Book SynopsisThe second in a three-volume study, this volume explores colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. It shows how the relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana created complex exchanges of goods, signs and cultural markers which affected both Africans and Britons.
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The University of Chicago Press Papi A Novel
Book SynopsisThroughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films.
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The University of Chicago Press Splitting the Difference Gender and Myth in
Book SynopsisHindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, this text recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Steppin Out New York Nightlife and the
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The University of Chicago Press Chicago 68
Book SynopsisA reconstruction of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Farber tells the story of the protests from the perspectives of the major protagonists--the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police.
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The University of Chicago Press Parallel Worlds An Anthropologist and a Writer
Book SynopsisA memoir of Africa recounting the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire.Table of ContentsMap: Cote d'Ivoire Map: Beng Region Cast of Characters Preface Pt. 1: Arriving 1: Premonitions (October 1-November 5, 1979) 2: Choosing a Host (November 6-November 28, 1979) 3: Trespassing (November 29-December 20, 1979) 4: Adrift (December 21, 1979-February 19, 1980) 5: The Elusive Epiphany (February 20-April 30, 1980) 6: Bedazzled, Beleaguered (May 1-June 30, 1980) 7: Divination and Trial (July 1-August 2, 1980) 8: Transgressions (August 3-October 3, 1980) 9: Metamorphoses (October 4, 1980-Spring 1981) Pt. 2: Returning 10: A Parallel World (June 11-August 13, 1985) Glossary Acknowledgments Index
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The University of Chicago Press Guardians of the Flutes Volume 1 Idioms of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsA Note on Language Foreword Robert A. LeVine Preface to the 1994 edition Preface Introduction 1: People of the Mountain Forest 2: Idioms and Verbal Behavior 3: The Inward Cosmos 4: Genderizing the Pandanus Tree 5: The Phantom Cassowary 6: Femininity 7: Masculinity 8: Male Parthenogenesis: A Myth and Its Meaning 9: Conclusion Appendix A: "Tali Says": On the problem of symbolic meaning and its relationship to field conditions among the Sambia Appendix B: Nilutwo's Dreams Appendix C: The Myth of Cassowary Appendix D: On the Origins of Warfare and Initiation Appendix E: The Myth of Gandei References Name Index Subject Index
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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.
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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.
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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 The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
Book SynopsisExplores the invention of sodomy in medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. The text traces the genealogy of this cultural construct through many of the idiosyncratic worldviews of the Middle Ages.
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University of Chicago Press The Hungry Soul Eating and the Perfecting of Our
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. The author reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings.
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The University of Chicago Press Custom and Confrontation The Kwaio Struggle for
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University of Chicago Press The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello
Book SynopsisThe death of Valerio Marcello, in 1490, left his father in a state of despair so profound that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises and poems. Through these sources, King traces the story of a 15th-century family, as well as the cultural trends of the time.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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University of Chicago Press The Poison in the Gift Ritual Prestation and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
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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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