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An Outline of the Origins of Money
Heinrich Schurtz

Mitra-Varuna
Georges Dumézil

Agricultural Reason
Arjun Appadurai

How French Moderns Think
Frédéric Keck

 

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Wild and Wonderful
Vanessa Manceron

Journeys into the Invisible
Charles Stépanoff

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Becoming Somebody Else
Joshua Burraway

 

Spring & Fall 2025 Catalogue

Imacoqwa’s Arrow
Jadran Mimica

Peasants and Capital
Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency
Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon

The Elementary Forms of Corruption
Aaron Ansell

 

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Marcel Mauss

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David Graeber & Marshall Sahlins
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Émile Benveniste

 

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Acting for Others
Pascale Bonnemère

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Roberte Hamayon
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Carlo Severi
Magic CoverMagic: A Theory from the South
Ernesto de Martino

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The Anti-Witch
Jeanne Favret-Saada

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Julien Bonhomme
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The Chimera Principle
Carlo Severi

Arctic Madness
Pierre Déléage

Who Killed Jules Crevaux?
Isabelle Combès

 

Essays in Ethnographic Theory

How Is It Between Us?
Jarrett Zigon

The Immensity of Being Singular
Simone Toji

Unexpected Subjects
Alessandra Gribaldo

Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls
Jadran Mimica

 

Malinowski Monographs

The Ethics of Space
Steph Grohmann

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João de Pina-Cabral

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Mark S. Mosko

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Andrew Irving

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Matthew Carey

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Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov

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Luiz Costa

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Peter Graif

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Deborah Puccio-Den

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Sylvia Tidey

 

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Marcel Mauss
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Émile Benveniste

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Gifts and Commodities
Chris A. Gregory

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Marilyn Strathern

Turner CoverFrom Hospitality to Grace
Julian Pitt-Rivers

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sūq: Geertz on the Market
Clifford Geertz

Property, Substance, and Effect
Marilyn Strathern

 

Collective Volumes in Ethnographic Theory

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Values of Happiness
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Valerio Valeri

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Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Webb Keane

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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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Valerio Valeri

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Sally Falk Moore

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Roy Wagner

Fake
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Kriti Kapila

Pandemic Exposures
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A Witch’s Hand
William E. Mitchell

 

 

Lectures, Masterclass Series

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Gilbert Lewis

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The Meaning of Money
Emily Martin

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John V. Murra

 

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Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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Marilyn Strathern

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Archive of Newsletters and Announcements

Full List

 

Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy – Michel-Rolph Trouillot; Ryan Cecil Jobson (introduction), 2025
Journeys into the Invisible: Shamanic Imagination in the Far North – Charles Stépanoff; Philippe Descola (foreword), 2025
An Outline of the Origins of Money – Heinrich Schurt; Michael Hudson (foreword); Enrique Martino, Mario Schmidt (introduction), 2024
Wild and Wonderful: An Ethnography of English Naturalists – Vanessa Manceron, 2024
How Is It Between Us? – Jarrett Zigon, 2024
How French Moderns Think – Frédéric Keck; Michael M. J. Fischer (foreword), 2023
Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty – Georges Dumézil; Stuart Elden (introduction); Veena Das (afterword), 2023
Who Killed Jules Crevaux?: Murder in the Bolivian Chaco – Isabelle Combès, Francis Grandhomme (preface); Diego Villar (introduction), 2023
Nullius – Kriti Kapila, 2022
Suq: Geertz on the Market – Clifford Geertz; Lawrence Rosen (introduction), 2022
Property, Substance, and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things – Marilyn Strathern; Eric Hirsch (introduction), 2022
Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus – Didier Fassin & Marion Fourcade (eds.), 2021
Science in the Forest, Science in the Past – Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd & Aparecida Vilaça (eds.), 2020
The Real Economy: Essays in Ethnographic Theory – Federico Neiburg & Jane I. Guyer (eds.), 2020
Fake – Jacob Copeman, Giovanni da Col (eds.), 2019
The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stephan Palmié and Giovanni da Col (eds.), Veena Das, Wendy James, Heonik Kwon, Michael Lambek, Sandra Laugier, Knut Christian Myhre, Rodney Needham, Michael Puett, Carlo Severi, and Michael Taussig (contributions), 2018
Classic Concepts in Anthropology – Valerio Valeri, 2018
The Logic of Invention – Roy Wagner, 2018
Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory – Matthew Carey, 2017
On Kings – Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber, 2017
The Owners of Kinship – Luiz Costa, 2017
Two Lenins: A Brief Anthropology of Time – Niko Ssorin-Chaikov, 2017
The Fire of the Jaguar – Terence S. Turner, 2017
Ways of Baloma – Mark S. Mosko, 2017
Before and After Gender – Marilyn Strathern, 2016
Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life – Iza Kavedžija & Harry Walker (eds.), 2016
The Gift: Expanded Edition – Marcel Mauss, 2016
World: An Anthropological Examination – João de Pina-Cabral, 2016
Why We Play: An Anthropological Study – Roberte Hamayon, 2015
Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives – Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Webb Keane, 2015
Gifts and Commodities – Chris A. Gregory, 2015
Magic: A Theory from the South – Ernesto de Martino, 2015
The Anti-Witch – Jeanne Favret-Saada, 2015
The Chimera Principle: An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination – Carlo Severi & William F. Hanks (eds.), 2015
Learning to See in Melanesia – Marilyn Strathern, 2013
The Maori and His Religion – Jørgen Prytz-Johansen, 2012