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  • The Gift

    Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

    de Marcel Mauss ...
    Traducido por Ian Cunnison ...
    The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.-Print ed. ... Leer más

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  • The Rites of Passage

    de Arnold van Gennep ...
    This classic work of anthropology explores the transitional stages of an individual's life and the societal rituals involved.Arnold van Gennep's masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    de Philippe Descola ...
    Traducido por Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Leer más

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  • Civilizations

    Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

    de Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization.To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its ... Leer más

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  • Stone Age Economics

    de Marshall Sahlins ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies ... Leer más

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  • Su'esu'e Manogi: In Search of Fragrance.

    Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference.

    Edición de Tamasailau M. Suaalii-Sauni, I'uogafa Tuagalu, Tofilau Nina Kirifi-Alai, Naomi Fuamatu ...
    This book is a celebration of His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi's intellectual and cultural legacy to Samoa, providing Tui Atua's writings and thoughts on Samoan indigenous knowledge. It was first compiled and published as a festschrift in commemoration of his seventiethbirthday. Tui Atua is Samoa'sHead of State and is currently the only holder of one of Samoa's four pāpā ... Leer más

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  • The Gift of Thanks

    The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude

    de Margaret Visser ...
    "A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives" from the bestselling author of The Rituals of Dinner ( The New York Times).Known as an "anthropologist of everyday life," Margaret Visser has won numerous awards for illuminating the unexpected meanings of everyday objects and rituals. Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so ubiquitous that it ... Leer más

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  • Living House

    An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia

    de Roxana Waterson ...
    The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.The main focus of the book is on Indonesia, but in tracing historical links between architectural forms across the region, ... Leer más

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  • Truth

    A History and a Guide for the Perplexed

    de Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    The renowned historian and author of Our America shares "an idiosyncratic exploration of…human history and various cultures' notions of truth" ( Publishers Weekly ).What is truth? And how do we even approach such a question? It is a problem that has vexed thinkers and scholars of all cultures for millennia. Now Felipe Fernández-Armesto delves into the long and fascinating histor... ... Leer más

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  • The True Life

    de Alain Badiou ...
    Traducido por Susan Spitzer ...
    'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young.Today young people, at least in the West, are on the brink of a new world. With the decline of old traditions, they now face more choices than ever before. Yet powerful forces are pushing them in ... Leer más

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  • The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths

    de Franz Boas ...
    This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths' is an anthropological work on the origins and progress of fiction. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion the natural sciences, he enrolled at the University at Kiel as ... Leer más

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  • Elephants & Kings

    An Environmental History

    de Thomas R. Trautmann ...
    Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant's extinction. The kings of ... Leer más

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