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** Wishing a open-handed and graceful 2019 from HAU
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** Julian Pitt-Rivers's From Hospitality to Grace: a Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus and Peter Graif's Being and Hearing now available open access
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** Being and Hearing
Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
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by Peter Graif
234 pp. | 6x9 | $35.00 USD | order hardcopy here (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo28708238.html)
or read the full text open access on the HAU Books Website (http://haubooks.org/being-and-hearing/)
"a uniquely subtle and powerful appreciation of how communication, culture, language, creativity, even thought and the senses are produced, deployed, and reconfigured by everyone"
Judith Farquhar
"a fascinating and surprising look at sense-making through the lens of deafness"
Tanya Luhrmann
"a searching ethnography of deaf lives in Nepal"
Michael Lempert
How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on four years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Graif argues that Nepali deaf communities—in their social sensibilities, political projects, and aesthetics of expression—present innovative answers to the very old question of what it means to be different.
From pranks and protests, to diverse acts of love and resistance, to renewed distinctions between material and immaterial, deaf communities in Nepal have crafted ways to foreground the habits of perception that shape both their own experiences and how they are experienced by the hearing people around them. By exploring these often overlooked strategies, Being and Hearing makes a unique contribution to ethnography and comparative philosophy.
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Praise for Being and Hearing
"This beautifully-written book is a path-breaking investigation in the anthropology of the senses and the politics of communication. Peter Graif ’s fascinating account of Nepali deaf worlds weaves a uniquely subtle and powerful appreciation of how communication, culture, language, creativity, even thought and the senses are produced, deployed, and reconfigured by everyone, not only those who live with deafness. The deaf world in Nepal is both populous and diverse, showing a great many experimental and witty strategies for getting by and (sometimes) living well together in an inhospitable sensorial social environment. Being and hearing teaches us, through the experience and tactics of the hearing impaired, and through their struggle for “intelligibility,” that communication and cultural common ground cannot be taken for granted or considered simply natural. Rather, intelligibility must be a project for all of us."
Judith Farquhar
author of Ten thousand things: Nurturing life in contemporary Beijing
"Being and hearing is a fascinating and surprising look at sense-making through the lens of deafness. Graif shows us much about the way that deafness is understood in Nepal, but he shows us at least as much about the way humans in general experience sense and meaning."
Tanya Luhrmann
author of When God talks back: Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God
"In graceful and intimate prose, Graif delivers a searching ethnography of deaf lives in Nepal, following them from everyday interactions to organized street protests and exploring just how observant and reflective the deaf are toward the perceptual (in)capacities of the hearing."
Michael Lempert
coeditor of Scale: Discourse and dimensions of social life
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** From Hospitality to Grace
A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
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** by Julian Pitt-Rivers
410 pp. | 6x9 | $40.00 order hardcopy here (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo22497806.html)
or read the full text open access on the HAU Books Website (http://haubooks.org/from-hospitality-to-grace/)
"This collection is indeed an act of grace."
Michael Herzfeld
"This omnibus collection of the writings of Julian Pitt-Rivers is not only welcome but also timely."
Jane Schneider
"Pitt-Rivers’ writings have a supple and subtle quality of style and argument, the flow of a fine essay."
Michael Gilsenan
The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life—including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and more—this omnibus brings his reflections to new life.
Holding Pitt-Rivers’s diversity of subjects and ethnographic foci in the same gaze, this book reveals a theoretical unity that ran through his work and highlights his iconic wit and brilliance. Striking at the heart of anthropological theory, the pieces here explore the relationship between the mental and the material, between what is thought and what is done. Classic, definitive, and yet still extraordinarily relevant for contemporary anthropology, Pitt-Rivers’s lifetime contribution will provide a new generation of anthropologists with an invaluable resource for reflection on both ethnographic and theoretical issues.
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Praise for The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
"Pitt-Rivers’ writings have a supple and subtle quality of style and argument, the flow of a fine essay. He draws the reader, only seemingly easily for these papers are cleverly and tightly argued, into wide-ranging reflections on founding patterns and structures, codes, customs and practices that he suggests should frame our understanding of major topics and fields for inquiry such as kinship, hospitality, honour and sacrifice. He moves across ethnographic and historical domains, classical and biblical sources with remarkable scholarship and a capacity for creative speculation. Like Georg Simmel, he opens our minds to thought and to rethinking with grace and economy."
Michael Gilsenan
Kriser Professor in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
"Despite his passion for promoting the anthropological study of the Mediterranean, [Pitt-Rivers’] stage was not the narrow one of “area studies” alone; he had much broader goals. The Zeitgeist of his era did not make it easy for a Europeanist to break into the Africanist-dominated world of British anthropological theory-making, even if that was the tradition in which he had been trained. But no man of honor (for it is clear that in much of his analysis he is musing on his own values and predilections) would have refused the challenge…. Far from being an antiquarian curiosity, as its period-specific style might initially suggest, his work is resonant with implications for the anthropology we practice today…. This collection is indeed an act of grace."
Michael Herzfeld
Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
"This omnibus collection of the writings of Julian Pitt-Rivers is not only welcome but also timely. An avid student of Mediterranean and European history, and an anthropologist often cited for his classical accounts of Spanish culture and authoritative writings on honor, Pitt-Rivers retained a deep interest in what makes communities, despite differences and conflicts, cohere and endure through time. His insights regarding intimate social relations, the role of ritual in public life, and the dynamics of making credible moral claims, seem to me invaluable to an understanding of “community,” today."
Jane Schneider
Professor Emeritus, Graduate Center CUNY
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** New Editorial Collective and Call for Editors of HAU Books
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The Society has determined that HAU Books will be edited by a collective of 2–5 members who will share the responsibilities for editing and promoting the book series and working in partner and for producing a yearly open access collection, as per our partnership with Knowledge Unlatched.
With five interrelated book series, HAU Books is committed to publishing the most distinguished texts in classics and advanced anthropological theory and releases its titles digitally as Open Access and also in hard copy editions, printed and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. HAU Books catalogues includes 36 titles, with classics like Marcel Mauss’s The Gift, Emile Benveniste’s Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society, Jeanne Favret-Saada’s The Anti-Witch, Ernesto de Martino’s Magic: a Theory from the South been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bookforum, Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books and the most prominent disciplinary journals. HAU Books titles are currently being translated in Mandarin, Italian, French, Japanese, reaching well beyond disciplinary boundaries and capturing the attention of thinkers such as Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben.
The Board of Directors calls for applications or nominations for members of the collective. We welcome editors located outside the main academic centres. Editors may be located anywhere in the world but must have proficiency in English, the main language of the journal. We are looking for people who are cooperative and work well with others. Applications or requests for further details should be sent to the Chair of the Editorial Search Committee Michael Lambek at [log in to unmask], ideally by January 30, 2019.
Download the call here. (https://www.dropbox.com/s/4fep9kk4epztbf5/HAU%20Books%20Call%20for%20Editors%20-%20final.pdf?dl=0)
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** New Board Statement and Bylaws
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On the 13th of December a new board statement explaining the last changes in the governance of the Society for Ethnographic Theory was issued. You can read it here (https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/announcement/view/24) . The Society also adopted new bylaws, which can be found on our website (https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/pages/view/bylaws).
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** HAU Journal, Volume 8.3 has been released
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Download and access the issue here (https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hau/2018/8/3)
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** HAU Books Titles 2015-2018:
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Available from the University of Chicago Press (http://press.uchicago.edu/index.html)
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)
Being and Hearing (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo28708238.html) by Peter Graif (Malinowski Monograph Series)
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
Reciprocity and Redistribution in Andean Civilizations: The 1969 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo26331114.html) by John V. Murra (Prepared by Freda Yancy Wolf and Heather Lechtman)
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 (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo27544335.html) 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 (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo26330975.html) by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Malinowski Monograph Series)
The Fire of the Jaguar (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo26331056.html) by Terence S. Turner, with a foreword by David Graeber
The Owners of Kinship (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo27544192.html) by Luiz Costa, with a foreword by Janet Carsten (Malinowski Monograph Series)
Acting for Others (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo27543793.html) by Pascale Bonnemère, with a foreword by Marilyn Strathern
Being and Hearing (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo28708238.html) by Peter Graif (Malinowski Monograph Series)
Capturing Imagination (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo28709540.html) by Carlo Severi
Classic Concepts in Anthropology (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo20552541.html) by Valerio Valeri
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