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The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitut...

This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical p...

Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about t...

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The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily s...

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The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new k...

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This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contri...

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity...