Crash Cultures

The Inner World of Research

A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author’s reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.

Procreation and Population in Historical Social Science

The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the c...

ISIS and the Pornography of Violence

‘ISIS and the Pornography of Violence’ is a collection of iconoclastic essays on ISIS, spanning the four-year period from its ascendancy in late 2014 to its demise in early 2018.

Revolution in the Echo Chamber

Revolution in the Echo Chamber is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. Building on historical analysis, this book provides contemporary perspective, drawing on trends from the current audio drama environment to analyse how people listen ...

Salaam America

A rare insight into the group identity of South Asian Muslims in New York, investigating Islamic stereotypes post-September 11th.

The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov

Radio Content in the Digital Age

From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an...

Media in Europe Today

Media, Markets and Public Spheres

This book uses newspapers and TV listings to present an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. It explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society with in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relatio...

Keeping the faith

This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene.

Men and Masculinities in South India

An anthropological examination of masculinity within South Asian societies.

Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics

Celebrity activism is an ever-growing, internationally visible phenomenon – yet the impact on public awareness, government support and resource mobilization remains under-researched. Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics brings together contributors to create a new framework for the...

Russia's New Fin de Siècle

This volume investigates Russian culture at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with scholars from Britain, Sweden, Russia and the United States exploring aspects of culture with regard to one overarching question: What is the impact of the Soviet discourse on contemporary cultu...

Fashion in Popular Culture

Pride and Panic

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness, a complex cocktail of fear, anger and anxious uncertainty. Hashamova examines the works of both established and lesser-known Russian directors, drawing parallels between evolving social attitudes in Russia and...

Habitus of the Hood

The Postdigital Membrane

The Postdigital Membrane explores the triad of imagination, technology and desire as they play upon each other. It offers fresh insights into the deeper problems of intelligence, reality and being human in order to map the emerging consciousness of the postdigital age.

Fat Activism (Second Edition)

In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice...

Doing Gender in Heavy Metal

This book offers a sociological study of gender regarding women in the heavy metal subculture. Relying on interviews with fans, women have made progress in the metal world, although gendered conditions also continue to exist. Heavy metal feminism is a process in becoming, but not yet an accomplis...

Television Antiheroines

This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the role of race and sexuality, focusing on the transgression of female identity, and examine how bad women are portrayed and how they reveal th...

Race and the Obama Administration

Did African Americans benefit from the election of Barack Obama? This book explores Obama's successes and failures on race policies by comparing his record to those of previous presidents, and explains why black support of Obama remained strong throughout his presidency.

Sub-Saharan African Immigrants’ Stories of Resilience and Courage

The purpose of this book to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in the US. The authors believe that telling our own stories from our own perspectives is important and empowering because when others tell our...

Global Connections and Emerging Inequalities in Europe

This book explores connections between poverty and migration in the context of the expansion of neoliberalism in Europe, examining these global concerns from a local perspective.

Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century

Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic collapse.

Sociology in Times of Glocalization

This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways ‘the global’ impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK

This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of o...

Causes and Consequences of Global Migration

The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies.

An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion

An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the B...

Fat China

'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system.

Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention

This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of people’s lives.

Reclaiming Development Studies

As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.

A New India?

This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by recognizing that India is changing remarkably and by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.

The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth

The book is a compendium of essays from around the world on how governments and institutions can effectively manage and take advantage of the demographic dividend. It highlights the role young people can play as actors of change.

Can We Live Forever?

An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension.

The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility

Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

Mediating Multiculturalism

This book addresses a historical problem—multiculturalism—using contemporary phenomena: digital storytelling. ‘Mediating Multiculturalism’ offers an innovative model for reconceptualising cultural difference in a highly mobile and contradictory global moment.

Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion

Presents findings from botanical samples excavated during the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations. Analyzes agricultural decisions, revealing impact of political and economic systems on environmental practices, contributing to understanding agricultural and environmental changes, making Gordion a signi...

Agricultural Strategies

Includes chapters on the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, South America. Theoretical perspectives and approaches provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management. An invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification ...

Our Work

Catalogue for exhibit showing many modern professions originated in the ancient Middle East. Artifacts from the Oriental Institute Museum were paired with a manicurist, brewer, boat builder, judge and others. The portraits are accompanied by commentary and will be of interest to educators, histor...

Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Iberia and the Gibraltar Strait

A guide to the early prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula, updated with the basic data furnished by the main sites for human evolution in Spain and Gibraltar. Includes noteworthy information from the key sites: their stratigraphy, the essential discoveries, the research topics and the main archaeo...

The Archaeology of Mesoamerican Animals

This volume presents current research from across the many cultures and regions of Mesoamerica, dealing specifically with the most current issues in zooarchaeological literature. The book's chapters provide important general background on the domestic and ritual use of animals in early and classi...

Life in a Cave in Petra with the Bdoul

For extended periods between 1981 and 1986 the archaeologist Judith McKenzie lived in a cave at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan in order to survey and measure architectural mouldings on the rock-cut monuments. This book is an important and essential volume on the archaeology and history of on...

The Gymnasium Area

This work presents the marble sculpture found in the Gymnasium Area at Corinth, dating between the C6th B.C. and C5th A.D. It provides insight into sculptural practices after the founding of the Roman colony at Corinth, and knowledge of display context and reuse of sculpture at a gymnasium in a l...

Miscellaneous Investigations in Central Tikal--Structures in and Around the Lost World Plaza

Book on Tikal's Maya center in Guatemala details six partially collapsed structures under "standing architecture." Surveyed without extensive excavation, it offers accessible insights for Mayanists, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, urbanists, and those intrigued by Maya construct...

Bismaya

This monograph presents this large and significant corpus of unpublished material and includes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions of chronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practices during t...

Materials and Studies for Kassite History Volume 1

Kassite kings (1595-1155 b.c.) reigned longer than any other dynasty in Babylonian history. From their time, more than twelve thousand cuneiform documents have survived. This volume catalogues all dated texts of the dynasty, including extensive unpublished materials in museums in Asia, Europe, an...

Town and Country in Southeastern Anatolia, Volume II

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago conducted excavations at Kurban Höyük, along with surveys of its immediate environs. Located in the lower portion of the Karababa reservoir area, it is one of several sites crucial to understanding the archaeological sequence of the lower portio...

Soundings at Tell Fakhariyah

An imposing array of scholars have united to pay a debt of piety to the late C. W. McEwan, whose untimely death in 1950 forestalled the publication of his campaign at Tell Fakhariyah, which took place in 1940.

Excavations in the Plain of Antioch Volume II

The second volume of The Excavations in the Plain of Antioch describes a series of excavations in the Syro-Palestinian region. The three sites included in the report are Çatal Hueyuek, Tell al-Judaidah and Tell Tayinat, all situated in the central part of the Amuq valley around the city of Rihani...

The Oriental Institute 2011-2012 Annual Report

Reports on the work of the Oriental Institute during the academic year (July 2011-June 2012), including twenty project, seven research support, eleven museum, seven public education and volunteer, and five development and membership reports.

Settlement and Society

Essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams reflecting his research and themes. Ecology, frontiers, urbanism, trade and technology are all explored. The intellectual threads Adams pioneered tie the volume together, incl. the use of multiple lines of evidence to attack problems and use of a compara...

The Oriental Institute 1999-2000 Annual Report

The Oriental Institute Annual Reports contain yearly summaries of the activities of the Institutes faculty, staff, and research projects, as well as descriptions of special events and other Institute functions.

Chogha Mish. Volume 1

Nearly 28 years after the completion of the first five seasons at the Chogha Mish site in Iran, the first of the final reports is now available. The site turned out to be highly significant for the wide range of protoliterate and prehistoric artifacts found there. These volumes examine and lavish...

Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis

The Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. They were excavated at the site of Deir el-Bahari, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city o...

Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 8

This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern end of Egyptian Nubia.

Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 9

The excavations at these cemeteries provide a full range of X-Group objects, dated to the fourth through sixth centuries a.d. Of special interest is the military equipment, including many decorated quivers, parts of several unusual light composite bows, and a saddle date to the late fourth century.

Life of Meresamun

Companion to the 2009 exhibit, traces the life of Meresamun, whose mummy, dating to about 800 B.C., is one of the highlights of the Oriental Institute Museum. The study of the life of this individual is augmented by forensic evidence obtained with the newest generation of CT scanners that sheds l...

The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens

The Stoa of Attalos was originally built around 150 BC; in the 1950s it was rebuilt to store and display finds from the Agora excavations. The modern builders learned much about the construction and purpose of the stoa, a ubiquitous classical building type. This heavily illustrated account presen...

First Kings of Europe (2- volume set)

Over several millennia, early agricultural villages gave rise to tribal kingdoms and monarchies, replacing smaller, more egalitarian social structures with complex state organizations led by royal individuals invested with power. These two beautifully illustrated volumes accompany and internation...

Mesopotamian Pottery

The results of the long-term co-operation of archaeologists from the University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to establish the ceramic chronology for Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.

The Late Byzantine Palace of Mistras and its Restoration

This book presents the fascinating history of the Byzantine Palace of Mistras in the Greek Peloponnese, originally erected in the 13th century, which became the seat of the Despots of Mistras and centre of the final flourishing of the Byzantine Culture; documented here in an extensive photographi...

Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Volume 1, A, part 2

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 17, S, Part 1

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 10, M, Parts 1 and 2

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Volume 16, S

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 13, Q

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 9, L

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 11, N, Parts 1 and 2

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in...

Cypriot Ceramics

Prehistoric Cypriot ceramics were widely traded, especially in the late Bronze Age, and constitute an important source of information about international trade and cultural relations in the Bronze and Iron Age eastern Mediterranean. These papers were presented at an international conference held ...

Byzantine Monuments in Modern Greece (English language edition)

This book looks at the treatment of Byzantine monuments in the first hundred years of the Greek State, and examines representative restoration interventions on Byzantine monuments in Greece. It includes a wealth of archival material that is published for the first time. English language edition

Understanding Chipped Stone Tools

This is a unique study of prehistoric stone tools, advocating an experiential approach to understanding stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employing a universal logic of designing tools; an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools.