“How Is It Between Us? provides a vital intervention into the limits of existing ethical theories through a careful rethinking of the conditions that have radically transformed our possibilities for existing in the contemporary world. This is without a doubt one of the most important books on ethics to have been published in the last …
“If anthropology has any conceit that it is hospitable to other modes of thought and their salience for ‘provincializing Europe,’ the texts we allow into the canon must be raked for their potential for the future they might have as much as for their past. My discussion is heavily oriented to the Indian texts that …
“A timely gift. An exercise in both retrospection and imagining worlds and relations otherwise, the book is full of mind-bending reflections on how we might think with a world marked, as ever, by scale-scrambling change. These essays offer something sorely needed right now: a brilliant model of how to embrace and think with incommensurability and …
“At a time when there is a desperate need for better understandings of the Muslim world, this essay by Clifford Geertz, brilliantly introduced by his fieldwork partner and colleague Lawrence Rosen, once again illustrates the importance of cultural anthropology in providing insights into different peoples and places. This is anthropology at its best.” — …
“This collection is probably the most important collective effort to date to grapple with the contemporary significance of Fernando Ortiz’s work. The book inspects the biographical, structural and historical experiences that gave shape to Ortiz’s concept of ’transculturation,’ and then lets the concept loose on the two regions from which it sprung forth. It …
“A far-reaching theoretical—and ethnographic—feat for anthropology at large. Animating the breadth of scholarship that animates it, this book sets free the concept of property to reconfigure some startling legacies of the dispossession implied. A profoundly original composition of multiple dispossessions transforms the concept: ‘property’ is never going to be quite the same again.” — Marilyn …
“The pandemic should be read as an eye-opening phenomenon, and this is precisely how it is addressed in this outstanding collection.” — Arnaud Orain, author of La Politique du Merveilleux: Une Autre Histoire du Système de Law, 1695-1795 “This balanced and sober exercise provides a long list of very convincing insights to be gained …
“Take a young priest from his native France, throw him into the depths of the Arctic snow among ‘savages,’ and see what happens. Pierre Déléage follows Petitot’s steps toward insanity and finds his legacy in a wealth of linguistic and ethnographic materials. A great little book.” — Alcida Rita Ramos, author of Indigenism: Ethnic Politics …
“[A] powerful new book. . . . The Ethics of Space makes a number of wide-ranging arguments about access to and exclusion from space, and the UK’s largely unchanging patterns of land ownership. But it also provides many vivid glimpses of Grohmann’s own experiences. . . . It is one of the striking features …
“A breath-taking journey into the energies of anthropological description and the description of anthropological energies. Wagner uncovers for us the logical infrastructures that hold the world open for us—in metaphor and the imagination, in ritual and the perception of time-space. The Logic of Invention is the book that brings the whole Wagnerian oeuvre to stand …
