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Philippe Descola,
Forms of the Visible

Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist's imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through…

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Philippe Descola,
Politics of Worlding

The Berkeley Tanner Lectures

The Politics of Worldling presents Philippe Descola's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a highly readable précis of some of the centra…

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A. N. Devers (Freelance Writer, UK, and Owner of The Second Shelf bookstore)
Train

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Triggering severe nostalgia and denoting adventure, mystery, and glamour, the passenger train is s…

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M Ruth Dike
Reproductive Labor, Gender, and Middle-Class Subjectivities in Morocco

In what ways do ordinary practices of care illuminate the broader social transformations unfolding within Morocco's urban middle class? Drawing on seventeen months of rich ethnographic fieldwork, M. Ruth …

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily life What does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anth…

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Parin Dossa
Ethics of Co-Existence

How do we go about creating a socially just world where we can coexist equitably? What is it like to be cognizant of human-nature family? What are the forces that compromise our humanity? Ethics of Coexis…

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Parin Dossa
Ethics of Co-Existence

Ethics of Coexistence maps a pathway for a socially just world through activist pedagogy of ethno-photography.

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Rachel Douglas-Jones
Committee Worlds

Anthropology of Policy

Medical research is a global endeavor; a complex network of international drugs trials and data collection in the pursuit of novel treatments. And the Asia-Pacific region is considered an ideal "mark…

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Pamela Downe
Pandemics

What makes a pandemic more than a disease? In Pandemics: Anthropological Insights, medical anthropologist Pamela Downe shows that outbreaks are biological events that become social and political crises, s…

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Robert Downes
The Advent of Iron

Before the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE, smelted iron was virtually unknown in the Near East. Yet by the turn of the millennium iron had already begun to displace copper alloys across the region.…

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Robert Downes
The Advent of Iron

Before the latter half of the 2nd millennium BCE, smelted iron was virtually unknown in the Near East. Yet by the turn of the millennium iron had already begun to displace copper alloys across the region.…

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Robert Drennan, Christian Peterson, C Adam Berrey
The Emergence of Social Complexity

The emergence of social complexity is at the heart of archaeological inquiry, but to date, there has been insufficient global comparative analysis of this phenomenon. This volume offers archaeologists and…

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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Chiyuma Elliott
The Rural Harlem Renaissance

The Rural Harlem Renaissance shows how African American rural culture shaped the work and reception of well-known Harlem Renaissance artists. Scholarship on this period has focused, in the main, on Black …

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Lorenz Engell
Ontographies

Exeter Concepts in Media Thinking

Ontographies proposes a radical shift, moving beyond the crisis of representation by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspective for understanding our media-saturated world. …

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Diana Espírito Santo, Sergio González Varela
Not-Knowing

Ethnographers of socio-cultural phenomena routinely face moments in the field that evoke no answers for our interlocutors, or in which answers come in entirely different forms from those anthropologists a…

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Diana Espírito Santo, Sergio González Varela
Not-Knowing

Ethnographers of socio-cultural phenomena routinely face moments in the field that evoke no answers for our interlocutors, or in which answers come in entirely different forms from those anthropologists a…

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Vassilis Evangelidis
Roman Aegean Thrace

Providing an archaeological exploration of Roman Aegean Thrace from the Late Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity, this book examines urbanization, settlements, rural and mountainous landscapes, ritual an…

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Judith Farquhar, Qicheng Zhang
Ten Thousand Things

An astounding anthropological study of the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good lifeTen Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese par…

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Jane M Ferguson
Planes of Existence

Coffee, tea or anthropology? Buckle up. The cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia have taken to the air. In just over a century, aviation has transformed the world, both progressively and cataclysmically.…

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