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HAU Books (www.haubooks.org<http://www.haubooks.org/>) is delighted to announce the release of the first volume of the Malinowski Monographs Series:
WORLD: AN NATHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
by Joăo de Pina-Cabral
*The Malinowski Monographs Series (Volume 1)*
232 pp. | 6x9 | 5 Halftones | $15.00 USD
Purchase Hardcopy Here: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo25470772.html
Read Open Access Version Here: https://haubooks.org/world/
What do we mean when we refer to world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does world mean for an ethnographer or an anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but do we really know what we mean by these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture, and how these shed light on the relationship between humans and the world in the midst of which they find themselves.
As Pina-Cabral shows, recent decades have seen important shifts in the way we relate human thought to human embodiment—the relation between how we think and what we are. The book proposes a novel approach to the human condition: an anthropological outlook that is centered around the notions of personhood and sociality. Through a rich confrontation with ethnographic and historical material, this work contributes to the ongoing task of overcoming the theoretical constraints that have hindered anthropological thinking over the past century.
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Praise for WORLD: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION:
"This is that rare book that constitutes a genuine theoretical tour de force. At a time when anthropological theorizing is often meek or painted only in partial gestures, Pina-Cabral attempts to build a theory of human life and the world(s) in which it unfolds from the ground up, reasoning from some very basic observations about the nature of human being to a rich set of claims about the nature of social life. Rigorously argued from beginning to end, this book will quickly take its place in the contemporary anthropological conversation and the debates it fosters will change that conversation for the better."
— Joel Robbins, University of Cambridge
"As its title implies, this tightly argued book ranges over all the main foundational issues of anthropology: Are there many worlds or only one? What are persons, how are they constituted, and how do they form societies and produce culture? What are the bases of belief in transcendent beings, of imagination and moral evaluation? With remarkable economy and clarity, while drawing on a dazzling array of philosophical, anthropological, and psychological sources, Pina-Cabral provides innovative and sometimes provocative answers to these difficult questions."
— Anne-Christine Taylor, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS
"Pina-Cabral’s World is a challenging tour de force through anthropological intellectual history with a view to overcome what the author calls the “all-or-nothing fallacy.” The book is highly theory-oriented, yet at the same time manages to reassert the centrality of ethnographic practice for positioning oneself in the world of others. It is a must-read for those wishing to orient themselves broadly in current debates about epistemology and ontology."
— Signe Howell, University of Oslo
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HAU’S FAMILY CONTINUES TO GROW: WELCOME UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE
We would like to take this opportunity to thank and welcome the newest member of our Network of Ethnographic Theory (HAU-N.E.T.): The Global South Studies Centre (http://gssc.uni-koeln.de/de) at the University of Cologne (Germany), with support from the University and City Library of Cologne (https://www.ub.uni-koeln.de/index_eng.html). We are immensely grateful for our partners' openness, vision, and support. HAU-N.E.T. today consists of 38 very brave institutions (http://haujournal.org/haunet) that have invested in innovation and the future of open access anthropology.
More supporters are joining our movement every month. Should your department, institution, or library wish to join our Network and help support Open Access anthropology, please write to us: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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HAU: JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY — CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR SPECIAL ISSUES (2018-2019): NEW DEADLINE
The editors of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory are delighted to launch an international competition for special issues to be published in 2018 or 2019. Selected special issues, after publication in the journal, will be made available in paperback by HAU Books (printed and distributed by the University of Chicago Press). Previous titles, released as both a journal issue and later in revised form in paperback, include:
2015. *Translating Worlds:The epistemological space of translation*.
Edited by Carlo Severi and William F. Hanks.
2016. *Values of Happiness: Toward an anthropology of purpose in life.*
Edited by Iza Kavedžija and Harry Walker.
We wish to reach out and engage the widest community of scholars working in or from any part of the world to contribute, with groundbreaking work, to the emergence of new ethnographically-inspired theories fostering advances in human sciences and the understanding of current changes in society and modes of thought.
On the basis of the proposals received, the editors of HAU, in consultation with Editorial Board members, will select a shortlist for further consideration, and will notify guest editors about the acceptance within six months after the submission of the complete manuscript. Those short-listed will be asked to give names and contact details of 3 referees who have agreed, if requested, to give their confidential appraisal of the entirety of the submitted manuscript. Review reports will be requested from only one of these nominated referees as well as external reviewers nominated by the journal. The failure of referees nominated by the proposers to produce a timely report may lead to the rejection of the manuscript for publication. Final reports will be evaluated by the editors and selected members of the Editorial Board and a winner of the competition will be nominated.
Proposals should be submitted by: 31 May 2017
Near complete manuscripts will be required by: 31 December 2017
A final decision based on reader’s reports will be given by: March 2018
The winning collection will be published in: Autumn or Winter 2018, or Spring 2019
To inquire or submit a proposal, please contact Michael Lambek, Interim Editor at [log in to unmask] or Giovanni da Col, Editor-in-Chief at [log in to unmask]
Download Call for Proposals Here: http://www.haujournal.org/media/HAU_Call_for_Special_Issues_2018-2019.pdf
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FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM HAU BOOKS
Please browse the following forthcoming titles from HAU Books at the University of Chicago Press Website: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/publisher/pu3432000_3432001.html
*coming soon*
CLASSIC CONCEPTS IN ANTHROPOLOGY by Valerio Valeri, edited by Giovanni da Col and Rupert Stasch
FROM HOSPITALITY TO GRACE: THE JULIAN PITT-RIVERS OMNIBUS, edited by Giovanni da Col and Andrew Shryock
THE ART OF LIFE AND DEATH: RADICAL AESTHETICS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE by Andrew Irving (Malinowski Monographs Series)
*coming in 2017*
THE MYTHOLOGY IN OUR LANGUAGE: REMARSK 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.
ON KINGS by David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins
MISTRUST: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY by Matthew Carey (Malinowski Monographs Series).
TWO LENINS: A BRIEF ANTHROPOLOGY OF TIME by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Malinowski Monographs Series).
THE FIRE OF THE JAGUAR by Terence S. Turner.
RECIPROCITY AND REDISTRIBUTION IN ANDEAN CIVILIZATIONS (THE 1969 LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURES) by John V. Murra, prepared by Heather Lechtman and Freda Yancy Wolf.
For previously released titles, please visit haubooks.org to read and purchase your copy today:
GIFTS AND COMMODITIES by Chris Gregory (with a foreword by Marilyn Strathern)
THE ANTI-WITCH by Jeanne Favret-Saada (Translated by Matthew Carey, with a foreword by Veena Das)
THE CHIMERA PRINCIPLE by Carlo Severi (Translated by Janet Lloyd, with a foreword by David Graeber)
THE MEANING OF MONEY IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES by Emily Martin (with a foreword by Eleana Kim and an afterword by Jane Guyer and Sidney Mintz)
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 (with an afterword by Roy Wagner)
COMPARING IMPOSSIBILITIES by Sally Falk Moore (with a foreword by John Borneman)
THE GIFT: EXPANDED EDITION by Marcel Mauss (Selected, introduced, and translated by Jane I. Guyer and with a foreword by Bill Maurer)
BEFORE AND AFTER GENDER: SEXUAL MYTHOLOGIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE <http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo23679117.html> by Marilyn Strathern (Edited with an introduction by Sarah Franklin, and with a foreword by Judith Butler)
WHY WE PLAY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY by Roberte Hamayon (Translated by Damien Simon and with a foreword by Michael Puett)
THE SEX THIEVES: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF A RUMOR by Julien Bonhomme (Translated by Dominic Horsfall and with a foreword by Philippe Descola)
THE VALUES OF HAPPINESS: TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF PURPOSE IN LIFE, edited by Iza Kavedžija and Harry Walker
DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN CONCEPTS AND SOCIETYby Émile Benveniste with a foreword by Giorgio Agamben
WORLD: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION by Joăo de Pina-Cabral (Malinowski Monographs Series)
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