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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 …
Words and Worlds
Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, …
Textures of the Ordinary
How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new …
The Historiography of Genocide
The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical …
Affliction
Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches …
Structure and Cognition, Third Edition
Sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual has primarily been confined to the empirical study of local communities. In this classic work, the author adds a new dimension to …
Ground Between
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between …
Rethinking the Human
In our globalized world, differing conceptions of human nature and human values raise questions as to whether universal and partisan claims and perspectives can be reconciled, …
Remaking a World
Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social …
Living and Dying in the Contemporary World
Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions …
Ayya's Accounts
"e;An absorbing exploration of one man's life"e; -as an orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather-through a century of upheaval in India (Library Journal).Born in …
A Stitch in Time
Fixing things that are broken is much better for the planet than throwing them away. In this book, we follow Shyam and Srisha as they learn how to fix an iron and a punctured …