How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism? On a planet that is increasingly becoming a single, metaphysically homogeneous world,...

If the history of thinking is to be considered a series of creative errors, then the history of Durkheim’s reception in Germany is certainly a case study in creativity. In few other occasions can we observe such a long series of misunderstandings...

Grounded in anthropological fieldwork and archival research and adopting Foucault’s concept of ‘effective history’, this work searches for points of origin that creates ruptures and deviations taking distance from conventional ways of writing film...

After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage...

Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films,...

« Cada generación reescribe la historia, se ha dicho en muchas ocasiones. Este constituye también, en este sentido, un producto que tiene algo de generacional.»Jordi CanalEsta historia de España en dos volúmenes es uno de los proyectos...

Esta historia de España en dos volúmenes es uno de los proyectos historiográficos españoles más importantes de las últimas décadas. Plural, accesible y puesta al día, reúne a los mejores miembros de la nueva generación de historiadores. Revela las...

Seit einigen Jahren ist die Welt in eine Phase des politischen Aufruhrs eingetreten, deren Ende noch nicht abzusehen ist. Versammlungen und besetzte Plätze, Protestbewegungen gegen die Staatsgewalt, zivile Aufstände, globale Mobilmachungen,...

As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of...

Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi’s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself...

When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation...

Na relação política e cultura, a última, em geral, era apenas instrumentalizada pela primeira. A invenção da política cultural inverte a situação, ao invocar a política para desenvolver a cultura. Apresentando a trajetória do Ministério dos Assuntos...