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Product Description: Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships...read more
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9781782388890 | Reprint edition (Berghahn Books, May 1, 2015), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships.
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9780984201051 | Prickly Paradigm, April 15, 2014, cover price $12.95
Product Description: The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, it is necessary to rethink the relationship between the religious and the secular; the contributors - all leading scholars in anthropology - do just that, some even arguing that secularization itself now takes a religious form...read more
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9780857451309, titled "Contemporary Religiosities: Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State" | Berghahn Books, August 31, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct.
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9780415151894 | New edition (Taylor & Francis Ltd, January 1, 2009), cover price $31.45
Product Description: âPostmodernâ warfare and other contemporary forms of mass destruction are an integral part of the larger political and economic schemes from which they emerge. Social and cultural studies of this violence are similarly embedded within their political environment and are thus tinged with the prevailing social philosophy...read more
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9780972819664 | Prickly Paradigm, December 15, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: âPostmodernâ warfare and other contemporary forms of mass destruction are an integral part of the larger political and economic schemes from which they emerge.
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9781845453152 | Berghahn Books, November 30, 2006, cover price $27.50
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9781845451745 | Berghahn Books, January 15, 2006, cover price $10.00
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9780745324418 | Pluto Pr, November 4, 2005, cover price $45.00
Product Description: The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value...read more
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9781845451752 | Berghahn Books, October 31, 2005, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value.
Product Description: In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia...read more
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9781571815675 | Berghahn Books, June 1, 2005, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia.
Product Description: Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event...read more
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9781845450007 | Berghahn Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate.
Product Description: The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social formation outside it...read more
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9781845450229 | Berghahn Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war.
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9781571814180 | Berghahn Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $27.95
Product Description: The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author's native Australia...read more
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9780874745665, titled "Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia" | Smithsonian Inst Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $32.50
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9780857454362, titled "Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia" | Rev new edition (Berghahn Books, December 15, 2011), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago.
9781560985730 | Reissue edition (Smithsonian Inst Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $18.95
Product Description: Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development. Along with magic and witchcraft, it is assumed to be irrational and antithetical to modern thought. But in The Feast of the Sorcerer, Bruce Kapferer argues that sorcery practices reveal critical insights into how consciousness is formed and how human beings constitute their social and political realities...read more
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9780226424118 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 1997, cover price $106.00 | About this edition: Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development.
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9780226424132 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 1997, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development.
Product Description: The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms, and develops new and original approaches to ritual and the aesthetic in general...read more
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9780854966042 | Berg Pub Ltd, November 30, 1991, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant.
9781560980407 | Revised edition (Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant.
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