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> FROM HAU BOOKS
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> Announcing the release of two new titles from HAU's Malinowski Monographs
> series
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> **
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> The Malinowski Monographs series
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> 
> 
> 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
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> 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*.
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> 
> 
> 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/>*
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> Foreword by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
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> 
> 
> "Welcome to the twenty-first century, Bronislaw Malinowski."
> 
> Roy Wagner, author of *Invention of Culture*
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> "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.
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> 
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> 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*
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> 
> 
> "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*
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> 
> 
> "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*
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> 
> 
> “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*
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> 478 pp. | 6x9 | 44 halftones | $40.00
> 
> THE MALINOWSKI MONOGRAPHS (VOLUME 2)
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> 
> 
> 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/>.
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> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> **
> 
> 
> 
> "*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."
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> 
> 
> 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*
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> 
> 250 pp. | 6x9 | Full color, 68 images | $35.00
> 
> THE MALINOWSKI MONOGRAPHS (VOLUME 3)
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> 
> 
> 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
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> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> **
> 
> 
> 
> – The HAU Books Editorial Team
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