The Hau Classics of Ethnographic Theory series provides access to out-of-print classics, second editions of important texts in anthropology, and annotated translations of classic and state-of-the-art monographs, that are valuable for both research and teaching. They are intended to illustrate the contribution of ethnographically-inspired insights to larger debates in anthropology and the human sciences. To highlight the continued relevance and interest of these works, prominent contemporary thinkers provide original commentary in the form of introductions, prefaces, or afterwords to these volumes.
Gifts and Commodities
Chris A. Gregory
Sūq: Geertz on the Market
Clifford Geertz
Property, Substance, and Effect
Marilyn Strathern
An Outline of the Origins of Money
Heinrich Schurtz
The Hau Masterclass series is dedicated to the publication of seminal lecture series by key influential anthropologists. The series is inspired by the lectures of anthropologists, intellectuals, and writers published elsewhere. Each Masterclass volume features an introduction authored by a leading anthropologist, contextualizing the work—its conception, delivery and influence. The Masterclass series will appeal to students wishing to understand complex thinkers in an approachable way; professors interested in material that effectively communicates core theories of major anthropologists; busy academics who want to quickly become conversant in the work of major scholars; and members of the general public who are simply curious to know more about anthropology.
We include here the publications arising out of some of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, a series of four talks presented by renowned anthropologists at the invitation of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester in New York. To be invited to give these lectures is one of the most prestigious honors an anthropologist can receive. HAU has published this selection of Morgan Lectures in collaboration with the University of Rochester; others are published by Duke University Press.
Pandora’s Box
Gilbert Lewis
The Meaning of Money
Emily Martin
Cosmological Perspectivism
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Learning to See in Melanesia
Marilyn Strathern
