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\"\"We are delighted to inform you that we will be present at the RAI – Art, Materiality, Representation<\/a> conference at the British Museum, London, June 1-3, 2018. Please stop by our table to browse the latest selection of books at discounted prices & pick up some free journal samples.<\/p>\n

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If you are unable to attend, we would like to provide you with a special discount offer. For the next 30 days, receive a 25% discount on all titles listed below. At checkout, simply enter the discount code RAI18.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visit our website<\/a>\u00ad to browse our newly published interactive online Anthropology and Sociology Catalog<\/a> or use the new enhanced subject searching features\u00ad for a complete listing of all published and forthcoming titles.<\/p>\n

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Here is a preview of some of our newest releases on display:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"WaitingWAITING FOR ELIJAH<\/a><\/p>\n

Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape<\/p>\n

Safet Had\u017eiMuhamedovi\u0107<\/p>\n

NEW SERIES<\/strong>: Volume 1, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world\u2019s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n

\"HeadingHEADING FOR THE SCENE OF THE CRASH<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cultural Analysis of America<\/p>\n

Lee Drummond<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Loose Can(n)ons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This collection of essays aims to refashion cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, addressing topics including the 9\/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n

\"AnimismIn Paperback! <\/em><\/p>\n

ANIMISM BEYOND THE SOUL<\/a><\/p>\n

Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge<\/p>\n

Edited by Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard<\/p>\n

Volume 6, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"ContemporaryNew in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n

CONTEMPORARY PAGAN AND NATIVE FAITH MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE<\/a><\/p>\n

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses<\/p>\n

Edited by Kathryn Rountree<\/p>\n

Volume 26, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe reviewed book presents an outstanding effort in researching contemporary Paganism and Native Faith movements in Europe nowadays.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Pantheon Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Context is Everything: Plurality and Paradox in Contemporary European Paganisms<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"ExtraordinaryNew in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS<\/a><\/p>\n

Authenticity and the Interview<\/p>\n

Edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples and Nigel Rapport<\/p>\n

Volume 28, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026a diverse group of scholars who have a broad range of experience as ethnographers and whose work with interviews, life stories and biography highlight the extraordinariness of social encounters.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Tamara Kohn<\/strong>, University of Melbourne<\/p>\n

Read Introduction: The Interview as Analytical Category<\/a><\/td>\n

\"TourismNew in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n

TOURISM AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTERS IN CUBA<\/a><\/p>\n

Valerio Simoni<\/p>\n

Foreword by Nelson Graburn<\/p>\n

Volume 38, New Directions in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cSimoni\u2019s work represents a valuable contribution to a better understanding of the role of tourism in contemporary Cuban society. Particularly noteworthy is the quality of his ethnographic work.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Mondes du Tourisme<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: Relating through Tourism<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"TheTHE WITNESS AS OBJECT<\/a><\/p>\n

Video Testimony in Memorial Museums<\/p>\n

Steffi de Jong<\/p>\n

Volume 10, Museums and Collections<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"1200px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_white.svg\"<\/a> Full Text<\/strong><\/a> (Open Access)<\/p>\n

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With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the “musealization” of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.<\/p>\n

This edition is supported by Knowledge Unlatched<\/a><\/em>. Full Text<\/a>.<\/td>\n

\"VisitorsVISITORS TO THE HOUSE OF MEMORY<\/a><\/p>\n

Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin<\/p>\n

Victoria Bishop Kendzia<\/p>\n

Volume 9, Museums and Collections<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Visitors to the House of Memory<\/em> is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum\u2019s evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history?<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n

\"YearningsNow in Paperback! <\/em><\/p>\n

YEARNINGS IN THE MEANTIME<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Normal Lives’ and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex<\/p>\n

Stef Jansen<\/p>\n

Volume 15, Disclocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is an impressive, exceptionally intelligent book that offers many productive starting points for the anthropological discussion of the conditions of \u2018hope\u2019, of statehood, of the transformation of contemporary Europe as well as of the fundamental question about the relationship between everyday life and the political.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction: [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns]<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"OurNow in Paperback!<\/em><\/p>\n

OUR COMMON DENOMINATOR<\/a><\/p>\n

Human Universals Revisited<\/p>\n

Christoph Antweiler<\/p>\n

Translated from the German by Diane Kerns<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAntweiler’s is a quite meticulous and lucid study of human universals in the discipline of anthropology after more than a century of neglect in favor of the particularistic, relativist study of human cultures through the method of ethnography. His review is comprehensive and searching.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n

\"ReturningRETURNING LIFE<\/a><\/p>\n

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro<\/p>\n

Knut Christian Myhre<\/p>\n

Volume 32, Methodology & History in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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As this vivid ethnography explores how life projects through beings of different kinds, it brings to life concepts and practices that extend through time and space, transcending established analytics.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction<\/a><\/td>\n

\"SingingSINGING IDEAS<\/a><\/p>\n

Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry<\/p>\n

Tr\u00edona N\u00ed Sh\u00edoch\u00e1in<\/p>\n

Volume 12, Dance and Performance Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Berghahn Journals<\/h3>\n

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\"MuseumMuseum Worlds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Advances in Research<\/a><\/p>\n

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Museum Worlds<\/em>\u00a0is a multidisciplinary, refereed, annual journal that publishes work that significantly advances knowledge of global trends, case studies, and theory relevant to museum practice and scholarship around the world.<\/p>\n

Featured Article:\u00a0Decolonizing Research, Cosmo-optimistic Collaboration?: Making Object Biographies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Visit the Museum Worlds Companion site!<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Of Related Interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\"\"Anthropology of the Middle East<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Featured Article:\u00a0Hope and Sorrow of Displacement: Diasporic Art and Finding Home in Exile<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Journeys<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Issue:\u00a0A Journey to Australia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Religion and Society<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Advances in Research<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Current Volume:<\/p>\n

Volume 8<\/a>\u00a0(Religions, Histories, and Comparisons)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sibirica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Featured Article: Eskimo Art Prototypes in the Chinese Neolithic: A Comparison of Okvik\/Old Bering Sea and Liangzhu Ritual Art<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Social Analysis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The International Journal of Anthropology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Free Access:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>What Is Analysis?: Between Theory, Ethnography, and Method<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Transfers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Featured Article: Mobilizing a “Spiritual Geography” The Art and Child Artists of the Carrolup Native School and Settlement, Western Australia<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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View our full collection in the 2018 Anthropology Catalog<\/a>!<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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