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In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's
"Golden Bough," published posthumously in 1967. At that time,
anthropology and philosophy were in close contact - continental
thinkers drew heavily on anthropology's theoretical terms, like
mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits
of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first
translation by an anthropologist, in the hope that it can kickstart
a new era of interdisciplinary fertilization. Wittgenstein's
remarks on ritual, magic, religion, belief, ceremony, and Frazer's
own logical presuppositions are as lucid and thought - provoking
now as they were in Wittgenstein's day. Anthropologists find
themselves asking many of the same questions as Wittgenstein - and
in a reflection of that, this volume is fleshed out with a series
of engagements with Wittgenstein's ideas by some of the world's
leading anthropologists, including Veena Das, David Graeber, Wendy
James, Heonik Kwon, Michael Lambek, Michael Puett, and Carlo
Severi.
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for
his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern
Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser known side of
Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative
essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory.
Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about
ritual, fetishism, cosmogonic myth, belief, caste, kingship,
mourning, play, feasting, ceremony, and cultural relativism,
Classic Concepts in Anthropology, presented here with a critical
foreword by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col, will be an
eye-opening, essential resource for students and researchers not
only in anthropology but throughout the humanities.
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.
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