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The latest University of Chicago Press catalog in Anthropology is available on this page in PDF form and as a hyperlinked list. The list below includes new titles published or announced since the printed catalog appeared. Please note that some of these titles are scheduled for release more than six months in the future. Unpublished titles can be ordered now; your credit card will not be charged for those titles until the books actually ship.

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Anthropology and Society

No Fixed Abode

Augé, Marc
Ethnofiction
April 2013 New Book

Social Life of Spirits

Blanes, Ruy
November 2013 New Book

Ethnicity, Inc.

Comaroff, John L.
July 2009 E-book

Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat

Curtis, Valerie
The Science Behind Revulsion
October 2013 New Book

Beyond Nature and Culture

Descola, Philippe
June 2013 New Book

Ecology of Others

Descola, Philippe
March 2013 New Book

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Foucault, Michel
The Function of Avowal in Justice
October 2014 New Book E-book

Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust

Geschiere, Peter
Africa in Comparison
September 2013 New Book

Economy of Words

Holmes, Douglas R.
Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks
November 2013 New Book

Lifeworlds

Jackson, Michael
Essays in Existential Anthropology
November 2012 New Book E-book

Music, Dance and the Art of Seduction

Kouwenhoven, Frank
June 2013 New Book

Occupy

Mitchell, W. J. T.
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
May 2013 New Book E-book

Islands of Privacy

Nippert-Eng, Christena E.
September 2010 E-book

Accompaniment

Rabinow, Paul
Assembling the Contemporary
November 2011 E-book

Designing Human Practices

Rabinow, Paul
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
July 2012 New Book E-book

Western Illusion of Human Nature

Sahlins, Marshall
With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comparative Notes on Other Conceptions of the Human Condition
June 2008

What Kinship Is-And Is Not

Sahlins, Marshall
January 2013 New Book E-book

Beauty and the Beast

Taussig, Michael
July 2012 New Book E-book

I Swear I Saw This

Taussig, Michael
Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own
December 2011 E-book

What Color Is the Sacred?

Taussig, Michael
May 2009 E-book

Resonance

Wikan, Unni
Beyond the Words
January 2013 New Book E-book

Anthropology

Wulf, Christoph
A Continental Perspective
April 2013 New Book E-book

Belonging in an Adopted World

Yngvesson, Barbara
Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
June 2010 E-book

Terrorism

Zulaika, Joseba
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
December 2009 E-book

African Studies

Questioning Secularism

Agrama, Hussein Ali
Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
November 2012 New Book E-book

Place That Matters Yet

Byala, Sara
John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the Postcolonial World
June 2013 New Book E-book

Neoliberal Frontiers

Chalfin, Brenda
An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa
July 2010 E-book

Youngest Recruits

Chelpi-den Hamer, Magali
Pre-War, War & Post-War Experiences in Western Côte d’Ivoire
February 2011

Scattered Family

Coe, Cati
Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality
November 2013 New Book

Love in Africa

Cole, Jennifer
June 2009 E-book

Sex and Salvation

Cole, Jennifer
Imagining the Future in Madagascar
December 2010 E-book

Harkis

Crapanzano, Vincent
The Wound That Never Heals
July 2011 E-book

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals

Decoteau, Claire Laurier
The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
October 2013 New Book

Season of Rains

Ellis, Stephen
Africa in the World
April 2012 E-book

Perils of Belonging

Geschiere, Peter
Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe
May 2009 E-book

Braided Worlds

Gottlieb, Alma
September 2012 New Book E-book

Hunting the Ethical State

Hellweg, Joseph
The Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire
July 2011 E-book

Prophet's Camel Bell

Laurence, Margaret
A Memoir of Somaliland
October 2011 E-book

This Side Jordan

Laurence, Margaret
A Novel
October 2011 E-book

I Say to You

Lynch, Gabrielle
Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya
November 2011 E-book

Making War in Côte d'Ivoire

McGovern, Mike
July 2011

Unmasking the State

McGovern, Mike
Making Guinea Modern
November 2012 New Book E-book

Modernity Bluff

Newell, Sasha
Crime, Consumption, and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire
June 2012 New Book E-book

Bitter Roots

Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove
The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
December 2013 New Book

Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

Parés, Luis Nicolau
February 2011 E-book

Predicament of Blackness

Pierre, Jemima
Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race
November 2012 New Book E-book

Nostalgia for the Future

Piot, Charles
West Africa after the Cold War
July 2010 E-book

Africa as a Living Laboratory

Tilley, Helen
Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950
April 2011 E-book

Heart for the Work

Wendland, Claire L.
Journeys through an African Medical School
September 2010 E-book

Middle East

Genealogical Science

Abu El-Haj, Nadia
The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
April 2012 E-book

Gendered Paradoxes

Adely, Fida
Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress
August 2012 New Book E-book

Varieties of Muslim Experience

Rosen, Lawrence
Encounters with Arab Political and Cultural Life
June 2008 E-book

Asia

Religious Bodies Politic

Bernstein, Anya
Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism
October 2013 New Book

Tragic Spirits

Buyandelger, Manduhai
Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia
November 2013 New Book E-book

Museum on the Roof of the World

Harris, Clare E.
Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet
October 2012 New Book E-book

Monastery in Time

Humphrey, Caroline
The Making of Mongolian Buddhism
June 2013 New Book E-book

Governing Educational Desire

Kipnis, Andrew B.
Culture, Politics, and Schooling in China
April 2011 E-book

Ghetto at the Center of the World

Mathews, Gordon
Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
June 2011 E-book

Laughing at Leviathan

Rutherford, Danilyn
Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
April 2012 E-book

Erotic Triangles

Spiller, Henry
Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java
September 2010 E-book

Democracy against Development

Witsoe, Jeffrey
Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
October 2013 New Book

Van Gogh on Demand

Won Yin Wong, Winnie
China and the Readymade
November 2013 New Book

South Asia

Sailing on the Sea of Love

Capwell, Charles
The Music of the Bauls of Bengal
March 2011

Flaming Feet and Other Essays

Nagaraj, D. R.
The Dalit Movement in India
March 2011

Coming of Photography in India

Pinney, Christopher
October 2008

Document Raj

Raman, Bhavani
Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
November 2012 New Book E-book

Unfinished Gestures

Soneji, Davesh
Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
January 2012 E-book

Sinister Yogis

White, David Gordon
November 2009 E-book

The Americas

Producing Success

Demerath, Peter
The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School
December 2009 E-book

American Allegory

Hancock, Black Hawk
Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
June 2013 New Book E-book

Truth in Motion

Holbraad, Martin
The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
June 2012 New Book E-book

Gay Fatherhood

Lewin, Ellen
Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America
November 2009

Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Moss, Madonna L.
November 2011 E-book

Gwich'in Athabascan Implements

O’Brien, Thomas A.
History, Manufacture, and Usage According to Reverend David Salmon
November 2011 E-book

Caribbean

Palmié, Stephan
A History of the Region and Its Peoples
September 2011 E-book

Cooking of History

Palmié, Stephan
How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
June 2013 New Book E-book

American Value

Pedersen, David
Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States
January 2013 New Book E-book

Operation Fly Trap

Phillips, Susan A.
L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law
July 2012 New Book E-book

Street Therapists

Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.
Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
April 2012 E-book

Where the North Sea Touches Alabama

Shelton, Allen C.
September 2013 New Book

Exit Zero

Walley, Christine J.
Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
January 2013 New Book E-book

Khanty, People of the Taiga

Wiget, Andrew
Surviving the 20th Century
May 2011 E-book

Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

de Castro, Eduardo Viveiros
The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-century Brazil
October 2011

Europe

Children of the Greek Civil War

Danforth, Loring M.
Refugees and the Politics of Memory
November 2011 E-book

Anthropology at War

Evans, Andrew D.
World War I and the Science of Race in Germany
September 2010 E-book

Evicted from Eternity

Herzfeld, Michael
The Restructuring of Modern Rome
April 2009 E-book

Hawking Incorporated

Mialet, Hélène
Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
June 2012 New Book E-book

Moral Neoliberal

Muehlebach, Andrea
Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
June 2012 New Book E-book

Paris Primitive

Price, Sally
Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly
October 2007

Peoples on Parade

Qureshi, Sadiah
Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
October 2011 E-book

Empire's Children

Saada, Emmanuelle
Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies
March 2012 E-book

Reasons of Conscience

Sperling, Stefan
The Bioethics Debate in Germany
April 2013 New Book E-book

Film and Art

Made to Be Seen

Banks, Marcus
Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology
July 2011 E-book

Tango

Gonzalez, Mike
Sex and Rhythm of the City
June 2013 New Book

Adventure of the Real

Henley, Paul
Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
February 2010 E-book

Thug Life

Jeffries, Michael P.
Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
January 2011 E-book

Gay Fatherhood

Lewin, Ellen
Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America
November 2009

Photography and Anthropology

Pinney, Christopher
June 2011

Art Without Borders

Scharfstein, Ben-Ami
A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity
April 2009 E-book

Brazilian Jive

Treece, David
From Samba to Bossa and Rap
June 2013 New Book

Theory and Method

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition

Emerson, Robert M.
December 2011 E-book

Letting Stories Breathe

Frank, Arthur W.
A Socio-Narratology
November 2010 E-book

Restless Anthropologist

Gottlieb, Alma
New Fieldsites, New Visions
April 2012 E-book

Alive in the Writing

Narayan, Kirin
Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
March 2012 E-book

Demands of the Day

Rabinow, Paul
On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
June 2013 New Book E-book

Tales of the Field

Van Maanen, John
On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition
July 2011 E-book