“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 …
“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 …
Émile Benveniste (1902–1976) was a French linguist and semiotician who taught at the Collège de France until 1969. He is the author of many works on language, including Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, also published by HAU Books. With Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Gourou, he cofounded the anthropological journal L’Homme. Jordan K. Skinner is …
Extracts from Reviews of the French Edition “The trail is a major one: at its end may lie the new keys to understanding how the four original integral writing systems — Mesopotamian, Chinese, Maya, and Egyptian — capable of representing discourse, were invented.” — Le Magazine Littéraire. “Inventer l’écriture forcefully argues against vague categories like ‘pictography’ …
“Gribaldo’s vividly enlightening study of language in domestic violence hearings reveals an unresolved gap between women’s words and the law; between a victim’s speech and the law’s expectations. This is a central issue in current debates on trauma, violence, and testimony, and Gribaldo helps the reader to think on women’s hesitations not just as an …
“This book is an embarrassment of riches both ethnographic and theoretical. The depth and scope of Mimica’s ambition are rare. His inimitable writing style carries the reader forward headlong, at times breathlessly. His choice and treatment of topics–Christianity, shamanism, mind, personhood, and subjectivity—are very much of the moment. The presentation and analysis of Yagwoia men’s dreams demonstrates …
“Based on her encounters with migrants in São Paulo, Toji narrates the singularities and surprises of their livelihoods and life-journeys. Allowing each object to shape her approach to it, she puts emphasis on the fact that each field encounter summons its own methods, ways of thinking, and forms of writing.” — Maria José de Abreu, …
“Blending history and ethnography, this book offers a long-term monographic vision of one of Papua New Guinea’s last communities to enter modernity. Contextualized in this way and coupled with a broad comparative perspective, Mitchell’s presentation of forms of ‘magical’ aggression among the Lujere of the Upper Sepik constitutes a masterly contribution to the anthropology …
