Four Lectures on Ethics
2015 232 pages ISBN: 9780990505075 Price: $35.00 Buy This Book Download PDF Table of Contents
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Translating Worlds
2015 338 pages ISBN: 9780986132513 Price: $25.00 Buy This Book Download the PDF Table of Contents List of Contributors vii INTRODUCTION Translating worlds: The epistemological space of translation William F. Hanks and Carlo Severi 1 CHAPTER ONE The space of translation William F. Hanks 21 CHAPTER TWO Transmutating beings: A proposal for an anthropology …
The Gift
“The Gift is like a river that carries an immense mass of facts set in motion by Mauss’ vision. Guyer proves to be a skilled guide in navigating its perilous currents by giving us a nuanced translation that explores the text’s most secluded coves.” — Maurice Godelier, author of The Enigma of the Gift …
The Relative Native
The strength of Viveiros de Castro’s essays is that we no longer have to worry about apathy at all; we are engaged. … To me, these magisterial essays are the benchmark of twenty-first century anthropology, not so much a new beginning as a figure-ground reversal of the old one… [an] arbiter of human perception. — …
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
With characteristic erudition and precision of thought, Valerio Valeri took on the conceptual ambitions of anthropology at their most challenging. —Webb Keane (University of Michigan), author of Ethical life: Its natural and social histories Any superlative diminishes Valeri and his scholarship, which is characterized by rich, subtle, and complex …
The Mythology in Our Language
“This volume is an important intellectual event—in particular, because of the decisions by the editors to showcase some of the most important anthropological perspectives on this text. This will perhaps be taken as a provocation by philosophers, but for me, the strength of this project lies both in its teaching and in its content: …
Magic: A Theory from the South
Perhaps because he was uniquely equipped to bridge the chasm between philological folklore studies and the field orientation of anthropology, Ernesto de Martino was also a pioneer in his recognition of both the theoretical capacities of ordinary people and the historical formation of ideas—notably magic—that are often presented as existing in a timeless past. His …
The Anti-Witch
“The anti-witch is nothing short of anthropological therapy—it keeps the dream of ethnography as theory alive in these troubled times.” —Veena Das, Author of Life and words: Violence and the descent into the ordinary “Jeanne Favret-Saada’s The anti-witch is a timely challenge to anthropology and ethnography that goes far beyond the study of “witchcraft.” Her …
Gifts and Commodities
Chris Gregory’s work constitutes probably the single most important body of economic anthropology produced in the last half century.… This new edition of Gifts and commodities will be remembered as an enduring classic for a very long time to come. —David Graeber, London School of Economics, author of Debt: The first 5,000 years Gifts and …
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States
The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures by Emily Martin Foreword by Elena J. Kim Afterword by Sidney Mintz and Jane I. Guyer When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in 1986, she took as her subject the meaning of money in China and the United States. Though …