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The Relative Native – Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds
This book is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the …
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society
Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire-here with a new introduction by Giorgio Agamben-has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and …
Four Lectures on Ethics – Anthropological Perspectives
Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent …
The Sex Thieves – The Anthropology of a Rumor
While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple …
Mistrust – An Ethnographic Theory
Trust occupies a unique place in contemporary discourse. Seen as both necessary and virtuous, it is variously depicted as enhancing the social fabric, lowering crime rates, …
Before and After Gender – Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis …
From Hospitality to Grace – A Julian Pitt–Rivers Omnibus
The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, …
Capturing Imagination
We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In …
Real Economy
This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real economy are linked …
Logic of Invention
In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that …
Capturing Imagination
We have all found ourselves involuntarily addressing inanimate objects as though they were human. For a fleeting instant, we act as though our cars and computers can hear us. In …