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Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements
Strathern unravels the quixotic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements....... more |
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The Kindness Economy: A new currency for the future of business, work and life
The Kindness Economy is a powerful new force for change in business that will benefit not just socie... more |
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The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
, Rabelais, van Eyck, and Shakespeare, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as...... more |
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Mendeleyev’s Dream
chemistry and the role of one man’s dream. In this elegant, erudite, and entertaining book, Paul Strathern unravels the quixotic...... more |
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The Borgias
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and deprave... more |
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Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-Scale Practices
By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain them... more |
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Language and Culture in Dialogue
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
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Relations: An Anthropological Account
lives they study. In Relations, eminent anthropologist Marilyn Strathern provides a critical account of this key concept and...... more |
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Empire: A New History of the World: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Civilizations
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Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan
This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres... more |
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Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity: Ethnographic Learning from Small-Scale Practices
By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain them... more |
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Language and Culture in Dialogue
In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between language in particular and...... more |
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Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History
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Sacred Revenge in Oceania
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Breaking the Frames: Anthropological Conundrums
anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized...... more |
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Remaking the World: Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea
Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the...... more |
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Working in the Field: Anthropological Experiences Across the World
, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to...... more |
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The Social Face of Complexity Science: A Festschrift for Professor Peter M. Allen
This work is to honour Professor Peter M. Allen, a seminal figure in the foundation and development ... more |
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Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion
Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrate... more |
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Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion
Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrate... more |
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Kinship in Action: Self and Group
both Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- both of the University of Pittsburgh -- bring together a number of interests...... more |
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Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies
Now reissued in paperback with a new preface. The Highlands societies of Papua New Guinea, which hav... more |
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Kinship at the Core: An Anthropology of Elmdon, a Village in North-West Essex in the Nineteen-Sixties
various families, work patterns and community activities, Marilyn Strathern provides an understanding of the characteristics...... more |
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Big Men and Great Men: Personifications of Power in Melanesia
The societies of Melanesia have been a constant stimulus to anthropological theory. In this collecti... more |
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Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land
When the Portuguese arrived on the shores of Sri Lanka in 1506, they opened an era in which religiou... more |
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Transactions And Creations: Property Debates And The Stimulus Of Melanesia
In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for... more |
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Kinship, Law and the Unexpected: Relatives Are Always a Surprise
Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover...... more |
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James Joyce in 90 Minutes
Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He...... more |
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Hemingway In 90 Minutes
Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He...... more |
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Kinship, Law And The Unexpected: Relatives Are Always A Surprise
Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover...... more |
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Virginia Woolf In 90 Minutes
Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world’s great writers. He...... more |
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Partial Connections
the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace...... more |
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Partial Connections (Updated)
the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace...... more |
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Transactions And Creations: Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia
In the early 21st century, intellectual and cultural resources emerge on all sides as candidates for... more |
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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea
How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial an... more |
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Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future: The Duna People of Papua New Guinea
How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial an... more |
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Anthropology & Consultancy: Issues And Debates
More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies or ... more |
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Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip
Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and sor... more |
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Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip
Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and sor... more |
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Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives
How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The cont... more |
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Commons and Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountibility and the Flow of Knowledge
Strathern s questioning of this process addresses the challenge that notions of property ownership pose to the expected flow of...... more |
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Violence: Theory and Enthography
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Gender, Song, and Sensibility: Folktales and Folksongs in the Highlands of New Guinea
The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring do... more |
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in ente... more |
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Anthropology, by Comparison
Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in ... more |
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Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea
This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and wellnes... more |
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Derrida in 90 Minutes
In Derrida in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Derrida’s life and ideas, and explains...... more |
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Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought? We are all inc... more |
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The Python’s Back: Pathways of Comparison Between Indonesia and Melanesia
Building on an incipient tendency to make comparisons between Indonesian and Melanesian cultural the... more |
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Foucault in 90 Minutes: Philosophers in 90 Minutes
These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in ente... more |
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.... more |
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Locke in 90 Minutes
A brief and enlightening exploration of one of our greatest thinkers.... more |
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Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
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Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception
Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks... more |
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MacHiavelli in 90 Minutes
A brief and enlightening exploration of Machiavelli’s life and ideas, presented in entertaining and ... more |
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
A brief and enlightening exploration of Spinoza’s life and ideas, presented in entertaining and acce... more |
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Bodies and Persons: Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
This book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Mela... more |