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  • Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

    A Journey into Human Selfhood in an African Village

    by Roy Willis ...
    Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of 'spirit' tell us about the nature of human selfhood? To investigate these poorly understood matters, veteran anthropologist, neo-shaman and paranormal healer Roy Willis spent five months in a remote part of northern Zambia exploring human consciousness in a fascinating and sometimes terrifying series of adventures. This ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Astrology, Science and Culture

    Pulling down the Moon

    by Roy Willis, Patrick Curry ...
    Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest. From daily horoscopes to in-depth and personalized star forecasts, astrology, for many, plays a crucial role in the organization of everyday life. Present-day scholars and scientists remain baffled as to why this pseudo-science exercises such control ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Signifying Animals

    Edited by Roy Willis ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality

    Religion in a Pluralistic World

    by Felicitas D. Goodman ...
    A cross-disciplinary exploration of comparative religion that offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior.In this book, anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion. The analysis is divided into two sections. The first reviews species-wide human ... Read more

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  • Thinking Through Things

    Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

    Edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell ...
    Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge to disciplinary fragmentation - arguing for the futility of segregating the study of artefacts and society - ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Craft and the Kingly Ideal

    Art, Trade, and Power

    by Mary W. Helms ...
    In ancient Mediterranean cultures, diamonds were thought to endow their owners with invincibility. In contemporary United States culture, a foreign-made luxury car is believed to give its owner status and prestige. Where do these beliefs come from?In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands

    by Arne Røkkum ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan and the outside world. This book presents an ethnographic portrayal of the people of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and their world. In particular it explores the mind of the islanders, their relationship with the natural world, their social ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Taming Time, Timing Death

    Social Technologies and Ritual

    Edited by Rane Willerslev, Dorthe Refslund Christensen ...
    Series series Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
    Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time. As such, it is with death and our encounters with it, that form the basis of human conceptions of time. Presenting ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Animism in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Kaj Arhem, Guido Sprenger ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations.Based on original fieldwork, this book presents a number of case studies of animism from insular and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Locality and Belonging

    Edited by Nadia Lovell ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • San Rock Art

    by J.D. Lewis-Williams ...
    Series series Ohio Short Histories of Africa
    San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery.Taking as his starting point the magnificent Linton panel in the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

    Edited by Michael Banton ...
    As the basic questions of social structure were elucidated there came a quickening of interest among social anthropologists in the study of religion. Chapters in this book include: · Religion as a Cultural System (Clifford Geertz) · Colour Classification in Ndembu Religion (Victor W. Turner) · Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation (Melford E. Spiro) · Fathers, Elders and Ghosts in Edo ... Read more

    $77.99 USD