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Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle. The kaba. or culminating death feast" of that cycle, is invoked by the word "asiwinarong," which symbolizes the leadership succession on which Barok claims to ethical integrity and precedence rest Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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9780691638973 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $102.50
9780691094212 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle.
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9780691610924 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Professor Wagner's study of Barok social and ritual life pays special attention to the men's-house feasting cycle.
Product Description: This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Published in a wide variety of venues, and often difficult to find, the pieces are brought together here for the first time in a one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, “Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere...read more
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9780391006751, titled "Hegel''s Science of Logic" | Reissue edition (Prometheus Books, April 1, 1989), cover price $49.95 | also contains Hegel''s Science of Logic | About this edition: Science of Logic , first published between 1812 and 1816, is the work in which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel outlined his vision of logic.
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9780990505037 | Hau, February 15, 2016, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
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9783775728737 | Bilingual edition (Hatje Cantz Pub, January 31, 2012), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Mariana Castillo Deball opens a dialogue with the anthropological writings of Roy Wagner, through text and drawings.
Product Description: In contrast to western notions of the soul as the essence or most native part of a human being, the Tzeltal-speaking Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, regard the soul first and foremost as an Other. Made up of beings that personify the antithesis of their native selves--animals such as hummingbirds or jaguars, atmospheric phenomena like lightning bolts or rainbows, or spirits of European appearance such as Catholic priests or evangelical musicians--Tzeltal souls represent the maximum expression of that which is alien...read more
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9780292723313 | Univ of Texas Pr, November 15, 2010, cover price $55.00
9780240803319, titled "Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Encyclopedia" | Focal Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $124.00 | also contains Handbook for Sound Engineers: The New Audio Encyclopedia | About this edition: Handbook for Sound Engineers, The New Audio Cyclopedia is the most complete audio information available.
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9780292737471 | Univ of Texas Pr, November 15, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In contrast to western notions of the soul as the essence or most native part of a human being, the Tzeltal-speaking Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, regard the soul first and foremost as an Other.
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9780803210820 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, July 1, 2010, cover price $40.00
Product Description: An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectively), now does the same for the "subject" and subjectivity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780520225862 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists.
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9780520225879 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $31.95
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9780819184474 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1991, cover price $18.99
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9780875801513 | Northern Illinois Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $35.00
Product Description: This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a powerful critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought...read more
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9780854961450 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 1, 1988, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do.
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9780226869292 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1986, cover price $26.00
Product Description: The Invention of Culture, one of the most important works in symbolic anthropology in recent years, argues that culture is not a given that shapes the lives of the people who share it. Rather, it is people who shape their culture by constantly manipulating conventional symbols taken from a variety of everchanging codes to create new meanings...read more
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9780226869346 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 1981, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The Invention of Culture, one of the most important works in symbolic anthropology in recent years, argues that culture is not a given that shapes the lives of the people who share it.
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9780801411939 | Cornell Univ Pr, December 1, 1979, cover price $29.95
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9780226869728 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1973, cover price $12.00
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9780226869742 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1967, cover price $17.00 | also contains Essentials of Computing & Communication Technologies
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