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  • In and Out of Each Other's Bodies

    Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social

    by Maurice Bloch ...
    What is human sociality? How are universals such as truth and doubt variously demonstrated and negotiated in different cultures? This book offers an accessible introduction to these and other fundamental human questions. Bloch shows that the social consists of two very different things. One is a matter of continual adjustments between individuals who read each others' minds and thus, as in sex and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Marxism and Anthropology

    The History of a Relationship

    by Maurice Bloch ...
    This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present knowledge and draws attention to inconsistencies in their analysis of pre-capitalist societies. These inconsistencies can be traced to the influence of ... Read more

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  • Ritual, History and Power

    Selected Papers in Anthropology

    by Maurice Bloch ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility. ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge

    by Maurice Bloch ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    This provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these ... Read more

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  • Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology

    Edited by Maurice Bloch ...
    Reflecting the first evaluation among British and American anthropologists of the relevance of Marxist theory for their discipline, the studies in this volume cover a wide geographical and social spectrum ranging from rural Indonesia, Imperial China, Highland Burma and the Abron kingdom of Gyaman. A critical survey assesses the value of some key ideas of Marx and Engels to social anthropology and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Essays on Cultural Transmission

    Edited by Maurice Bloch ...
    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. All the essays illustrate Bloch's characteristic approach ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ritual and Memory

    Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion

    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • How We Think They Think

    Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy

    “Maurice Bloch is so ferociously smart that one can always enjoy tangling with his ideas, even when—perhaps especially when—one doesn’t agree with him. This is an important and provocative book.” —Sherry Ortner Columbia University These essays by one of anthropology’s most original theorists consider such fundamental questions as: Is cognition language-based? How reliable a guide to memory are ... Read more

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    "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 ... Read more

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  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... Read more

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  • Anthropology in Theory

    Issues in Epistemology

    This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

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  • Culture and Communication

    An Introduction

    James M. Wilce's new textbook introduces students to the study of language as a tool in anthropology. Solidly positioned in linguistic anthropology, it is the first textbook to combine clear explanations of language and linguistic structure with current anthropological theory. It features a range of study aids, including chapter summaries, learning objectives, figures, exercises, key terms and ... Read more

    $40.19 USD