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Antonio Magliabechi nell’Europa dei saperi

Gli elogi di Antonio Magliabechi, al pari delle critiche e delle invidie che suscitò, ne hanno fatto spesso un mito fra i suoi contemporanei e, talvolta, anche fra gli studiosi che se ne sono occupati di recente. Mancava uno sforzo critico di...

Comparative Metaphysics

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,...

Durkheim in Germany

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...

Documentary Film in India

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...

Labor on the Fringes of Empire

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...

The Invention of Celebrity

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,...

Historia contemporánea de España

« 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...

Historia contemporánea de España

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...

Das Prinzip Demokratie

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,...

Writing the World of Policing

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...

The Chimera Principle

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...

Economics for the Common Good

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...