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From Hospitality to Grace
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.
The People of the Sierra
In 1st ed., 1954, village was called Alcalá de la Sierra, in order to protect informants during Franco regime; identified as Grazalema in 2nd ed.
Honor and Grace in Anthropology
This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.
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The Fate of Shechem or the Politics of Sex
This book is about the peoples of the Mediterranean – past and present – and about the unity of the Mediterranean over time, a unity which overrides the differences and the conflicts of the past three thousand years. In his search for the fundamental premises of Mediterranean civilization, Pitt-Rivers invokes the Odyssey and the Book of Genesis, which provide clues to those premises. -- Jacket.
