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HAU Books (www.haubooks.org) is delighted to announce the release of a
long-awaited classic:
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The Fire of the Jaguar
by TERENCE S. TURNER
305 pp. | 6x9 | $35.00 USD
Paperback available for purchase through the University of Chicago Press. <
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo26331056.html>
Open Access Forthcoming.
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“*The fire of the jaguar* reminds us why structuralism took the world by
storm in its day, and why it is still relevant for today’s anthropology.”
Sherry B. Ortner
“*The fire of the jaguar* has acquired over time the same mythical quality
as its topic. I first heard a rumor of its existence 45 years ago, but
ended up doubting that it would ever appear; yet here it is, and worth
waiting for.”
Philippe Descola
“*The fire of the jaguar* deserves a close reading by anyone wishing to
understand how the tiniest of ethnographic details, powerful and innovative
social theory, and uncompromising political activism can be fused into a
seamless whole in the life and works of a single scholar.”
Jonathan D. Hill
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We welcome all friends and colleagues of Terry Turner to celebrate the
release of The Fire of the Jaguar and commemorate the author's life and
work.
Join us at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Marquee Bar and Lounge "Alcove,"
2500 Calvert St NW, Washington, DC
Saturday 2 December, 10 pm
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Not since Clifford Geertz’s “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight”
has the publication of an anthropological analysis been as eagerly awaited
as this book, Terence S. Turner’s The fire of the jaguar. His reanalysis of
the famous myth from the Kayapo people of Brazil was anticipated as an
exemplar of a new, dynamic, materialist, action-oriented structuralism, one
very different from the kind made famous by Claude Lévi-Strauss. But the
study never fully materialized. Now, with this volume, it has arrived,
bringing with it powerful new insights that challenge the way we think
about structuralism, its legacy, and the reasons we have moved away from
it.
In these chapters, Turner carries out one of the richest and most sustained
analysis of a single myth ever conducted. Turner places the “Fire of the
jaguar” myth in the full context of Kayapo society and culture and shows
how it became both an origin tale and model for the work of socialization,
which is the primary form of productive labor in Kayapo society. A
posthumous tribute to Turner’s theoretical erudition, ethnographic rigor,
and respect for Amazonian indigenous lifeworlds, this book brings this
fascinating Kayapo myth alive for new generations of anthropologists.
Accompanied with some of Turner’s related pieces on Kayapo cosmology, this
book is at once a richly literary work and an illuminating meditation on
the process of creativity itself.
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Praise for *The fire of the jaguar*
"The fire of the jaguar reminds us why structuralism took the world by
storm in its day, and why it is still relevant for today’s anthropology.
Turner’s analysis of the famous Kayapo myth of the origin of cooking fire
is brilliant, not least because it takes seriously “the sophistication and
power” of indigenous thought."
Sherry B. Ortner (UCLA), author of Not Hollywood: Independent film at the
twilight of the American Dream
"The fire of the jaguar has acquired over time the same mythical quality as
its topic. I first heard a rumor of its existence 45 years ago, but ended
up doubting that it would ever appear; yet here it is, and worth waiting
for. In this masterly analysis of the Kayapó myth of the origin of fire,
Terry Turner gives a new meaning to an old anthropological obsession, the
myth as social charter; not as a prescriptive code, however, rather as a
template structuring the dialectical relationship between institutions and
dynamic processes situated in time and space. An intriguing challenge to
Les mythologiques, sure to foster an exciting debate."
Philippe Descola (Collège de France), author of Beyond nature and culture
"The fire of the jaguar provides an in-depth journey into the writings of
one of the greatest ethnographic theorists of recent decades. This highly
anticipated, posthumous collection of Terry Turner’s outstanding essays is
grounded in decades of fieldwork among the Northern Kayapó people of
Central Brazil and will be eagerly received among anthropologists and other
scholars concerned with understanding myth, ritual, and social organization
as dynamic, generative processes of social reproduction, world-making, and
historical transformation. The fire of the jaguar deserves a close reading
by anyone wishing to understand how the tiniest of ethnographic details,
powerful and innovative social theory, and uncompromising political
activism can be fused into a seamless whole in the life and works of a
single scholar."
Jonathan D. Hill (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale), author of
Made-from-bone: Trickster myths, music, and history from the Amazon
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Call for Short Monographs
<https://haubooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/MM2017_Call_for_submissions.pdf>
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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 (
haubooks.org) 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.
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.
Manuscript proposals may be submitted for short monographs (30,000 -
50,000 words) aimed to develop key concepts or themes of increased
relevance (borders, voice, fitness, mistrust, gambling, nonreligion,
sincerity, boredom, friendship, anonymity, inequality, austerity) or
critique classic categories of anthropological theory (magic, gifts, money,
imagination, bureaucracy, play, belief, ethnography).
Manuscript proposals should include:
- Author’s name, email, affiliation, and a short biography.
- A description of the manuscript (1000 words in length), including a
working title, proposed aims and scope, and estimated total word count.
- A description of the work’s potential audience and market niche.
Proposals should be as precise as possible, and should meet the following
criteria:
- Short-listed authors must ensure that full-length manuscripts will be
delivered on schedule (July 2018 or earlier), will accord to Hau’s
style-guidelines, and will be blinded for further review.
- Proposals should contain clear evidence that the resulting monograph, if
selected, will be authoritative and will meet the highest academic
standards.
- Proposals or manuscripts should not be under consideration for
publication elsewhere.
- Works of fiction, guest-edited volumes, and unsolicited full-length
manuscripts will not be considered.
On the basis of the manuscript proposals received, the Editorial Board of
HAU Books will select a shortlist for further consideration, and will
notify authors to submit a full manuscript for review. Final reports will
be evaluated by the Editor and selected members of the Editorial Board and
monographs will then be nominated for publication.
Proposals should be submitted by 15 December 2017
Complete manuscripts will be required by 31 July 2018
Please submit proposals to Katharine Herman, Managing Editor at
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American Anthropological Association DC Meeting - HAU events
All welcome!
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You are all invited to a gathering at the end of AAAs on Saturday, December
2nd, at the Omni Shoreham Marquee Lounge and Bar, at 10 pm. Near the
conclusion of the conference, let us take a moment to mark the commencement
of two extraordinary partnerships and groundbreaking innovations in
sustainable publishing: 1) a collaboration with The University of Chicago
Press to make HAU a professional and sustainable journal with a free access
model, starting in 2018; and 2) HAU Books new partnership with the
Berlin-based organisation Knowledge Unlatched (knowledgeunlatched.org),
from 2018 (as well as with UCP), that will enable us to be the only fully
open access anthropology press, a status important to our stand against the
increased market tendency to privilege hardback publishing, a tendency that
threatens the very existence of the ethnographic monograph, especially in
Europe. Through a new central Open Access platform, Knowledge Unlatched
will support HAU Books by managing the funding processes for its OA model.
The Editor will be at The University of Chicago Press booth (#214) on
Thursday 30 November, 4.00-5.pm, Friday 1 December 2.30-4 pm, and Saturday
2 December, from 11.00-12.30 am to answer questions to interested parties
and prospective authors (journal and books).
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ADAK 2017
The Annual Debate of Anthropological Keywords
A partnership between HAU, the American Ethnological Society, and L'Homme
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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)
Now Scheduled for Friday, December 1st 4:15-6:00 pm
Thurgood Marshall South Room, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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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All are welcome to the On Kings book launch in Chicago
Tuesday 28 November, 6pm.
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Marshall Sahlins in conversation with Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions in the
Divinity School.
Introduced by Giovanni da Col
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The new "What The Foucault" t-shirt, designed by HAU’s team, will be
available along with the new edition of Sahlins' classic pamphlet.
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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 third episode, "Digital Diaspora Politics and a Right Wing
Twitter Superstar," here <https://www.haujournal.org/haunet/onlinegods.php>.
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Don't forget the latest issue of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory has just released its fall issue - the
gift is full to the brim as winter fast approaches, with 575 pages of HAU
autumn leaves, all available to the reader via haujournal.org.
The gift is free.
With contributions by Marisol de la Cadena, Catherine Allen, Andrew
Canessa, Alf Hornborg, Ciara Kierans, Kristen Bell, David Berliner, Terence
Turner, Peter Gow, Michael Cepek, Joana Miller, Cesar Gordon, Michael
Oppitz, Marshall Sahlins, Marc Abélès, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Carlo Ginzburg,
Signe Howell, Marilyn Strathern, Alexei Yurchak, Anya Bernstein, Andrew
Kipnis, Stephen Feuchtwang, Magnus Fiskesjö, Maria Vidart-Delgado, Laura
Mentore, Matti Eräsaari, John Fahy, Mario Schmidt, Emily Yates-Doeer,
Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Ruben Caixeta, Jeremy M. Campbell, Carlos
Fausto, José Antonio Kelly, Claudio Lomnitz, Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin, Caio
Pompeia, Aparecida Vilaça, Alessandro Duranti, N. J. Enfield, Jack Sidnell,
William Hanks, Eve Danziger, Shaun Gallagher, Thomas Trautmann, John
Leavitt, Lucien Sebag, and Monica Wilson.
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Forthcoming Titles from HAU Books
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*Please browse the following forthcoming titles from HAU Books:*
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo20552541.html> by
Valerio Valeri, edited by Rupert Stasch and Giovanni da Col
The Owners of Kinship: Asymmetrical Relations in Indigenous Amazonia
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo27544192.html>by
Luiz Costa
*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)
Ways of Baloma <https://haubooks.org/ways-of-baloma/> by Mark S. Mosko
(Malinowski Monograph Series)
The Art of Life and Death
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo25471234.html> by
Andrew Irving (Malinowski Monograph Series)
Mistrust: An Ethnographic
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo26330914.html>
Theory
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo26330914.html> by
Matthew Carey (Malinowski Monograph Series)
From Hospitality to Grace: A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo22497806.html> by
Julian Pitt-Rivers, edited by Giovanni da Col and Andrew Shryock
On Kings
<http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo23678982.html> by
David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins
Two Lenins <https://haubooks.org/two-lenins/>by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov
(Malinowski Monograph Series)
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