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It has been quite a year for HAU Books (www.haubooks.org). We launched the press with our first title in March 2015. 

Today, we want to wish you a Happy 2016 and celebrate the end of the year by announcing the publication and release of our 8th title:

THE RELATIVE NATIVE: ESSAYS ON INDIGENOUS CONCEPTUAL WORLDS

By Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
With an Afterword by Roy Wagner

366 pp. | 7 figures | 6x9 | $24.99 USD

Order Hardcopy Here: http://ow.ly/Wrf1L

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 one major volume, which includes his momentous 1998 Cambridge University Lectures, "Cosmological Perspectivism in Amazonia and Elsewhere." Rounded out with new English translations of previous works, the resulting book is a wideranging portrait of one of the towering figures of contemporary thought—philosopher, anthropologist, ethnographer, ethnologist, and more. With a characteristic afterword by Roy Wagner, elucidating Viveiros de Castro's influence and engaging with his arguments, The Relative Native further cements Viveiros de Castro's position at the center of contemporary anthropological theory.


“The strength of Viveiros de Castro’s essays is that we no longer have to worry about apathy at all; we are engaged. . . . To me, these magisterial essays are the benchmark of twenty-first century anthropology, not so much a new beginning as a figure-ground reversal of the old one. . . [an] arbiter of human perception.”

— Roy Wagner, author of The Invention of Culture and Coyote Anthropology

“Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s seminal lectures and essays on cosmological perspectivism provide a careful and highly innovative introduction to many themes that have become central to the ontological turn in anthropology, including multinaturalism against multiculturalism, transformation/exchange versus creation/production, and performativity replacing representation. They offer invaluable insight into an anthropology operating in a space where we have been neither modern nor primitive.”

— Casper Bruun Jensen, author of Ontologies for Developing Things: Making Health Care Futures
Through Technology

“By way of a kind of guided reverse engineering, the brilliance of Viveiros de Castro’s arguments in his lectures and essays is made visible as a function of the intensities of Amazonian and (or ‘as’) other ways of living. In the process, anthropology itself is made visible as a form of living dedicated to just that: making other forms of living visible; which is to say imaginable, conceivable.”

— Martin Holbraad, author of Truth in Motion: The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination


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Celebrate the first year of HAU Books with us by watching again our introductory video: https://vimeo.com/121623292

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FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM HAU BOOKS

Please download our new brochure here: http://ow.ly/WrstA

You can browse the following titles from HAU Books at the University of Chicago Press website: http://ow.ly/WrszZ

Classic Concepts in Anthropology, by Valerio Valeri; edited by Giovanni da Col and Rupert Stasch. Coming January 2016.

The Gift: Expanded Edition, by Marcel Mauss; selected, introduced, and translated by Jane I. Guyer with a foreword by Bill Maurer. Coming March 2016.

The Mythology in Our Language: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, by Ludwig Wittgenstein; translated with a preface by Stephan Palmié, edited by Giovanni da Col, with critical contributions by Veena Das, David Graeber, Wendy James, Heonik Kwon, Michael Lambek, Michael Puett, and Carlo Severi. Coming April 2016

Before and After Gender: Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life, by Marilyn Strathern; edited with an introduction by Sarah Franklin, and with a foreword by Judith Butler. Coming April 2016.

From Hospitality to Grace: The Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus, edited by Giovanni da Col and Andrew Shryock. Coming May 2016.

Comparing Impossibilities: Selected Essays by Sally Falk Moore, with a foreword by John Borneman. Coming May 2016.

On Kings, by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins. Coming June 2016.

Why We Play: An Anthropological Study, by Roberte Hamayon; translated by Damien Simon. Coming August 2016.

Language in Culture: The Semiotics of Interaction by Michael Silverstein. Coming September 2016. 


For previously released titles, see below. Please purchase your copies today at the University of Chicago Press website: http://ow.ly/WrszZ

Gifts and Commodities, by C. A. Gregory
The Anti-Witch, by Jeanne Favret-Saada (Translated by Matthew Carey)
The Chimera Principle, by Carlo Severi (Translated by Janet Lloyd)
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States, by Emily Martin
Magic: A Theory from the South, by Ernesto de Martino (Translated by Dorothy Louise Zinn)
Four Lectures on Ethics, by Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane
Translating Worlds, edited by William F. Hanks and Carlo Severi
The Relative Native, by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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MALINOWSKI MONOGRAPHS: CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Following our inaugural competition, the editors of HAU Books are delighted to launch our second international competition for manuscript proposals for new, state-of-the-art monographs in anthropology. Proposals selected for publication will be published in our series, Malinowski Monographs, distributed on HAU’s website (www.haubooks.org) in Open Access format and in paperback via the University of Chicago Press.

On the basis of the manuscript proposals received, the editors of HAU Books, in consultation with Editorial Board members, will select a shortlist for further consideration and will notify authors to submit a full manuscript for review. Following review, the editors and selected members of the Editorial Board will then nominate monographs for publication.
 
Proposals should be submitted by 31 March 2016.
Short-listed manuscripts will be chosen by 30 June 2016.
Complete manuscripts must be delivered by 31 October 2016.
A final decision on publication based on reader’s reports will be given by 31 January 2017.
 
Please download instructions for submission here: http://ow.ly/WsfX1

To submit a proposal, please contact Giovanni da Col (Executive Editor) at [log in to unmask]

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