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Three Ways to Fail
How do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course spent living with Indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile, he came to understand failure—both his own and those of the discipline of anthropology—through Mapuche narratives of the witch, the clown, and the usurper. In a context of enduring poverty and racism, increasing state repression, and his own disintegration, he began to realize that these figures of failure, and their insatiable appetites for destruction, greed, and property, reflected as much upon his own failings as on anybody else’s, but also showed the way forward to a better way to live. Set amidst the stunning natural beauty and political tragedies of southern Chile, Three Ways to Fail is the story of what it means to become a part of other people’s lives, of what it means to fail them, and of what it means to live well when everything falls apart. Grounded in three decades of work and collaboration with Mapuche people, Three Ways to Fail sheds new light on Indigenous lifeways in the Americas while grappling with broader questions about the nature of ethnographic writing and the future of anthropology.
Becoming Mapuche
Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile. Based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, Becoming Mapuche takes readers to the indigenous reserves where many Mapuche have been forced to live since the beginning of the twentieth century. In addition to accounts of the intimacies of everyday kinship and friendship, Course also offers the first complete ethnographic analyses of the major social events of contemporary rural Mapuche life--eluwün funerals, the ritual sport of palin, and the great ngillatun fertility ritual. The volume includes a glossary of terms in Mapudungun.
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The New Education
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The Square
Full of controversy, gossip, affairs and drama, this book is a fantastic summer read. The Square is a contemporary, comic satire, set in the bourgeois heartland of London, featuring a community of great privilege where the only escape route is sex – and minor celebrity.
Norse Legends
Norse Legends represents an extraordinary compendium that bridges the chasm between ancient myth and modern interpretation, offering readers a diverse tapestry of tales that encapsulate the ethos of Norse mythology. This collection shines light on a broad range of literary styles, from the poetic eddas penned by Snorri Sturluson to the anonymously authored sagas that have traversed centuries. It is a testament to the enduring allure of these stories, presenting narratives filled with heroism, betrayal, and the ineffable workings of the gods. The anthology stands out for weaving together seminal pieces that have been pivotal in the resurgence of interest in Norse mythology, highlighting the m...
Saga Six Pack 4
Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas: In The Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown; Saga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri Sturluson; True and Untrue by George Webbe Dasent; Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri Sturluson; King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. Whistler and Little Annie the Goose-girl by Peter Christen Asbjornsen."
A Perfect Spy
'The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man father who made him, the two mentors who moulded and shaped him, and now wish to claim this perfect spy as their own. Described by le Carré as his most autobiographical novel, A Perfect Spy is a devastating portrayal of a man who has played different roles for so long, he no longer knows who he is. 'Le Carré understood that espionage is an extreme version of the human comedy, even the human tragedy. A Perfect Spy will very likely remain his greatest book' New Yorker
