From Hospitality to Grace - A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus (Paperback)

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, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life-including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and more-this omnibus brings his reflections to new life. Holding Pitt-Rivers's diversity of subjects and ethnographic foci in the same gaze, this book reveals a theoretical unity that ran through his work and highlights his iconic wit and brilliance. Striking at the heart of anthropological theory, the pieces here explore the relationship between the mental and the material, between what is thought and what is done. Classic, definitive, and yet still extraordinarily relevant for contemporary anthropology, Pitt-Rivers's lifetime contribution will provide a new generation of anthropologists with an invaluable resource for reflection on both ethnographic and theoretical issues.

General

Imprint:	Hau
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2018
Authors:	Julian Pitt-Rivers • Giovanni Da Col • Andrew Shryock
Dimensions:	229 x 155 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	410
ISBN-13:	978-0-9861325-2-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-9861325-2-7
Barcode:	9780986132520

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