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Announcing the release of two new titles from HAU's Malinowski Monographs
series
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The Malinowski Monographs series
In tribute to the foundational, yet productively contentious, nature of the
ethnographic imagination in anthropology, this series honors the creator of
the term “ethnographic theory” himself. Monographs included in this series
represent unique contributions to anthropology and showcase groundbreaking
work that contributes to the emergence of new ethnographically-inspired
theories or challenge the way the “ethnographic” is conceived today.
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NEW CALL FOR SHORT MONOGRAPHS
HAU Books is delighted to launch its third international competition for
manuscript proposals for new, state-of-the-art *short monographs* in
anthropology. Proposals selected for publication will be published open
access in the Malinowski Monographs series, on HAU Books’ website in
addition to being printed and distributed in hard copy via the University
of Chicago Press. The Malinowski Monographs is one of the last anthropology
series in Europe *publishing titles in paperback only*.
Please see the full call for short monographs here
<https://haubooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/MM2017_Call_for_submissions.pdf>
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MARK S. MOSKO, *Ways of baloma: Rethinking magic and kinship from the
Trobriands <https://haubooks.org/ways-of-baloma/>*
Foreword by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
"Welcome to the twenty-first century, Bronislaw Malinowski."
Roy Wagner, author of *Invention of Culture*
"This erudite and timely volume radically inverts much of the
anthropological canon by offering a reinterpretation of Trobriand society
that yields powerful new insights"
Sarah Franklin, editor of Marilyn Strathern’s *Before and after gender*
Bronislaw Malinowski’s path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands
shaped much of modern anthropology’s disciplinary paradigm. Yet many
conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that *baloma* spirits
of the dead were responsible for procreation but had limited influence on
their living descendants in magic and other matters, claims largely
unchallenged by subsequent field investigators, until now. Based on
extended fieldwork at Omarakana village—home of the Tabalu “Paramount
Chief”—Mark S. Mosko argues instead that these and virtually all contexts
of indigenous sociality are conceived as sacrificial reciprocities between
the mirror worlds that *baloma* and humans inhabit.
Informed by a synthesis of Strathern’s model of “dividual personhood” and
Lévy-Bruhl’s theory of “participation,” Mosko upends a century of
discussion and debate extending from Malinowski to anthropology’s other
leading thinkers. His account of the intimate interdependencies of humans
and spirits in the cosmic generation and coordination of “life” (*momova*)
and “death” (*kaliga*) strikes at the nexus of anthropology’s received
wisdom, and *Ways of baloma* will inevitably lead practitioners and
students to reflect anew on the discipline’s multifold theories of
personhood, ritual agency, and sociality.
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"It may sound a little surprising to say that a detailed ethnographic
disquisition on such tried-and-tested subjects as “magic” and “kinship”
among one of the most thoroughly studied societies in our disciplinary
history is bound to raise some anthropological controversy. Ways of baloma
certainly will, though. And that is a good thing [...] *Ways of baloma* is
one of the most interesting stories ever told about Melanesia."
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, author of *The relative native*
"Would not the wizards of *L’Année Sociologique* be surprised to discover
that all of their favorite conceptual glosses like sacrifice, prestation,
ritual, and symbol could all be covered by Mosko’s single broad-scale
analogy? Welcome to the twenty-first century, Bronislaw Malinowski."
Roy Wagner, author of *The invention of culture*
"This erudite and timely volume radically inverts much of the
anthropological canon by offering a reinterpretation of Trobriand society
that yields powerful new insights into kinship, magic, procreation,
knowledge, representation and life itself. It is consequently an
ethnography which has implications far beyond anthropology through its bold
insistence that we acknowledge more fully the inextricability of any form
of analytic category from the social context in which it is embedded."
Sarah Franklin, editor of Marilyn Strathern’s *Before and after gender*
"With *Ways of baloma*, Mark Mosko offers us a wide, deep and new view of
the Trobriander’s ways of thinking, acting, and exchanging not only between
human beings, but with their ancestral spirits, the *baloma*. Contrary to
what Malinowski wrote about them, the *baloma* are involved every day in
all the activities of the people. The *baloma* are the key to understanding
what are life and death, kinship and magic, sacrifices, the body and the
soul for the Trobrianders. The demonstration is superb."
Maurice Godelier, author of *The metamorphosis of kinship*
“This unique collaboration between an anthropologist and high-ranking
intellectuals presents a radically revised understanding of Trobriand
ethnography. Mosko returned to the Ground Zero of “ethnographic theory”—a
term coined by Malinowski—to produce an analysis deliberately designed as a
provocative and controversial intervention into contemporary debates on the
nature of Melanesian personhood, and the neglected relation between magic
and kinship.”
Chris Gregory, author of *Gifts and commodities*
“Malinowski’s Trobriand ethnography is the most famous case study in social
anthropology. Mosko has done long-term fieldwork in the islands and, on the
centenary of Malinowski’s study, he has come up with a radical
reinterpretation of key features of Trobriand life: magic, fatherhood, and
the ancestors. Drawing on contemporary theoretical perspectives, Mosko has
written the Trobriand ethnography for the twenty-first century.”
Adam Kuper, author of *Anthropology and anthropologists*
478 pp. | 6x9 | 44 halftones | $40.00
THE MALINOWSKI MONOGRAPHS (VOLUME 2)
Paperback available for purchase through the University of Chicago Press
Open access forthcoming in December.
Browse the Table of Contents and read the Foreword by Eduardo Viveiros the
Castro here <https://haubooks.org/ways-of-baloma/>.
Purchase now here
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo27544335.html>.
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ANDREW IRVING, *The art of life and death: Radical aesthetics and
ethnographic practice <https://haubooks.org/art-life-death/>*
<https://haubooks.org/art-life-death/>
"Unlike anything I have ever read in its combination of theoretical
ambition and methodological innovation"
Danilyn Rutherford, author of *Laughing at Leviathan*
"A theoretically informed text that will long remain open to the world."
Paul Stoller, author of *Yaya’s story*
*The art of life and death* explores how the world appears to people who
have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on
extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived
experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons
confronting their own mortality and non-being.
Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS
in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced
transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people
experience in the face of death. By bringing an “experience-near”
ethnographic focus to the streams of inner dialogue, imagination, and
aesthetic expression that are central to the experience of illness and
everyday life, this monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and
methodological contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the
human condition. With relevance well beyond the disciplinary boundaries of
anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of capturing
the inner experience of human suffering and hope that affect us all—of the
trauma of the threat of death and the surprise of continued life.
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"*The art of life and death* is unlike anything I have ever read in its
combination of theoretical ambition and methodological innovation. The book
is the fruit of Irving’s close collaboration with a remarkable group of men
and women diagnosed with AIDS at a time when there was little hope of
surviving the disease. With the help of their words and, crucially, their
art, Irving illuminates the 'complex inner life world' created by the
trauma of threatened death and the surprise of continued life. Inner
experience, and the challenge of capturing it, lie at the heart of this
book."
Danilyn Rutherford, author of *Laughing at Leviathan*
"The art of life and death is a monumental anthropological achievement.
Fusing long-term fieldwork, deeply sensitive observation and a refined
sense the phenomenology of our deep existential fears—of illness, of death,
and the emotional quandaries of having survived a confrontation with
mortality, Andrew Irving demonstrates how imaginative ethnography can
reveal to us the deep contours of human being. *The art of life and death*
is filled with gripping narratives not only of pain, confusion, but also of
courage and resilience. It is a theoretically informed text that will long
remain open to the world."
Paul Stoller, author of *Yaya’s story*
"*The art of life and death *is a brilliantly engaging piece of work that
invites us to rethink life itself and introduces new ways of carrying out
anthropological research. Through a compelling interweaving of ethnography
and theory, Irving takes us close to lives that have been lived under
conditions of existential uncertainty and recovery. This book goes beyond
conventional anthropology to offer a thoroughly inspiring account from
which we learn not only about what it means to live near death but how art
and the senses are implicated in life. It will endure as an outstanding
example of how do anthropology at its best."
Sarah Pink, coauthor of *Uncertainty and possibility*
"In this imaginatively conceived book Andrew Irving asks compelling and
daring questions on how to think of such categories as 'experience,' 'inner
life,' or 'subjectivity' in the face of imminent death. He follows up with
a very careful and caring ethnography of how art and life flow into each
other. Irving achieves perfect pitch in his writing. A splendid
achievement."
Veena Das, author of *Affliction*
250 pp. | 6x9 | Full color, 68 images | $35.00
THE MALINOWSKI MONOGRAPHS (VOLUME 3)
Paperback available for purchase through the University of Chicago Press.
Open access forthcoming in December.
Browse the Table of Contents here <https://haubooks.org/art-life-death/>.
Purchase now here
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo25471234.html>.
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Forthcoming Titles from HAU Books
*Please browse the following forthcoming titles from HAU Books:*
Reciprocity and Redistribution: The 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo26331114.html> by
John V. Murra, edited by Heather Lechtman and Freda Yancy Wolf.
From Hospitality to Grace <https://haubooks.org/from-hospitality-to-grace/> by
Julian Pitt-Rivers, edited by Giovanni da Col and Andrew Shryock
Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo26330914.html> by
Matthew Carey
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo20552541.html>,
by Valerio Valeri
The Fire of the Jaguar
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo26331056.html>by
Terence Turner, edited by Jane Fajans
On Kings
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo23678982.html> by
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
*All above titles for HAU Books can be pre-ordered from the **University of
Chicago Press website*
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/publisher/pu3432000_3432001.html>*. For
previously released titles, please see the links below to purchase your
copies today:*
Gifts and Commodities
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo20551269.html> by
Chris Gregory (with a foreword by Marilyn Strathern)
The Anti-Witch
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo20551844.html> by
Jeanne Favret-Saada (Translated by Matthew Carey with a foreword by Veena
Das)
The Chimera Principle
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo20552112.html> by
Carlo Severi (Translated by Janet Lloyd with a foreword by David Graeber)
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo20551417.html> by
Emily Martin (with a foreword by Eleana Kim and an afterword by Jane Guyer
and Sidney Mintz)
Magic: A Theory from the South
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo20552672.html> by
Ernesto de Martino (Translated by Dorothy Louise Zinn)
Four Lectures on Ethics
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo22485655.html> by
Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane
Translating Worlds
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo22496685.html> edited
by William F. Hanks and Carlo Severi
The Relative Native
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo20551631.html> by
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (with an afterword by Roy Wagner)
Comparing Impossibilities
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo23679408.html> by
Sally Falk Moore (with a foreword by John Borneman)
The Gift: Expanded Edition
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo22485556.html> 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
an afterword by Judith Butler)
Why We Play: An Anthropological Study
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo23679551.html> by
Roberte Hamayon (Translated by Damien Simon and with a foreword by Michael
Puett)
The Sex Thieves: The Anthropology of a Rumor
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo25470205.html> by
Julien Bonhomme (Translated by Dominic Horsfall and with a foreword by
Philippe Descola)
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/D/bo25521264.html> by
Émile Benveniste (with a foreword by Giorgio Agamben)
Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/V/bo25469954.html> edited
by Iza Kavedžija and Harry Walker.
World: An Anthropological Examination
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo25470772.html> by
João de Pina-Cabral (Malinowski Monographs Series).
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A warm welcome to LMU!
The HAU Network of Ethnographic Theory is honored to welcome the Ludwig
Maximilian University of Munich's Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology to its community of over thirty research centers and
anthropology departments working together to support HAU’s flagship journal
and its innovative book series.
Learn more about the Network here <https://www.haujournal.org/haunet/>.
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Online Gods: A Podcast about Digital Cultures in India and Beyond
From Project ONLINERPOL and HAU
How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and
elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith,
the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital
world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital?
Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political
ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists.
Listen to the first episode: Big Data and the Ladies Finger
<http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/onlinegods/>
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Events
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Announcing the Second A.M. Hocart Memorial Lecture
The second A. M. Hocart Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor
Danilyn Rutherford (University of California Santa Cruz and Wenner-Gren
Foundation) at The Centre for Ethnographic Theory at SOAS, University of
London on Monday, 23 April, 2018.
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Announcing the Inaugural Levi-Strauss Lecture at the Collège de France,
organized by our partner journal L'Homme
We are pleased to announce that our partner L’Homme, revue française
d’anthropologic, have established an annual Lévi-Strauss lecture, which
would foster dialogues between social and cultural anthropology and other
social sciences, and whose purpose would be to distinguish an
anthropologist whose work has already been noticed as particularly
promising. The lecture would also like to highlight research that reflects
the diversity of the discipline around the world.
The Inaugural Lévi-Strauss lecture will be given by Professor Aparecida
Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) in Paris at the Collège de France
in the amphithéatre Marguerite de Navarre, on October 13th, 2017 at 5 PM.
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ADAK 2017
The Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords
A partnership between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L'Homme
Given last year’s success, we are pleased to announced three scholarly
organizations and journals, all from different countries and intellectual
traditions—the American Ethnological Society (AES), HAU, and L’Homme—will
continue their alliance for the development of anthropological theory: the
Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords (ADAK). The aim is to hold an
annual debate around keywords and terms playing a pivotal and timely role
in discussions of different cultures and societies. We are pleased to
announce that the second debate will be held at the 2017 AAA meetings in
Washington D.C. with the keyword: HUMANISM.
Organizers: Carole Macgranahan (Colorado), Giovanni da Col (SOAS), Caterina
Guenzi (EHESS), and Cléo Carastro (EHESS)
Anthropology: the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific
of the humanities. We have long centered our discipline on the human,
posing inexhaustible questions regarding what it means to be human. Recent
years in anthropology and allied disciplines have seen the rise of the
Anthropocene and non-human actants as key concepts, along with a debate on
the “post-human.” What, these scholars ask, have we missed in presuming
human life to be not just our sole focus, but also our only one? And yet
out current political crisis arguably calls for a revitalized humanism. In
response, we contend that this moment calls for a revisiting of humanism in
the discipline. Yet, what it means to be human is not singular. Instead,
one of the core teachings of anthropology is that there are multiple ways
to be human, including ways to exclude certain individuals and groups from
that category. In this second Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords, we
seek to explore the term humanism as existing at the core of anthropology
inquiry.
With the participation of:
Didier Fassin (Princeton)
Hugh Gusterson (George Washington University)
Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley)
Joel Robbins (Cambridge)
Danilyn Rutherford (UC Santa Cruz)
Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University)
More details on the second ADAK debate to be held at the 2017 AAA Meetings
in Washington DC will be announced soon.
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– The HAU Books Editorial Team
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