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Ritual and Memory
Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory …
Marxism and Anthropology
This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive …
Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge
This provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of …
L'' Anthropologie et le Défi cognitif
Depuis des décennies, les anthropologues voient dans l’esprit le produit exclusif d’une culture coupée de toute base biologique ou naturelle. Ils ignorent ou rejettent ce que les …
Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology
Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide …
Essays on Cultural Transmission
This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, …
Death and the Regeneration of Life
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here …
Les Mères Des Grands Hommes
Money and the Morality of Exchange
This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also …
Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge
This provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of …
Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology
Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide …
Ritual, History and Power
This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.