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The feast of the sorcerer : practices of consciousness and power
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ISBN: 0226424111 0226424138 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

A celebration of demons : exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 0253313260 025320304X Year: 1983 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

Legends of people, myths of state : violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
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ISBN: 0874745659 9780874745658 Year: 1988 Publisher: Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press,

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A celebration of demons : exorcism and the aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 0854966048 Year: 1991 Publisher: Providence (R.I.) : Berg,

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Demonology --- Exorcism


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Transaction and meaning: directions in the anthropology of exchange and symbolic behavior
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Year: 1976 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa Institute for the Study of Human Issues

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State, sovereignty, war : civil violence in emerging global realities
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ISBN: 0857458620 1845450221 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social formation outside it. This volume represents different analytical standpoints and positions within global processes, inviting further discussion on contemporary realities and the development of new formations of war and violence.

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State, The. --- War.


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Legends of people, myths of state : violence, intolerance, and political culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
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ISBN: 0857455176 0857454366 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,

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The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author's native Australia. At the time this constituted an innovative approach to comparison in anthropology, as well as to nationalism and its possibilities. It was not based on differences but on the way in which perspectives from within the two nationalisms, when seen side-by-side, could present an understanding of their implication in producing the violence of war, racism, and social exclusion. The book has lost none of its importance and urgency as proven by the chapters in the Appendix, written by top scholars working in Sri Lanka and in Australia. These contributions bring together new material and critically explore the book's themes and their continued relevance to the various trajectories in nationalist processes since the first publication of the book.

The retreat of the social : the rise and rise of reductionism
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ISBN: 1845451759 1782387196 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books,

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The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no analytical value. The essays presented here, all by leading anthropologists, take a variety of positions on the matter of the retreat of the social. All demonstrate that if anthropology and other social sciences are to fulfill the task of a critical understanding of the diverse realities in which we all must live, these disciplines will find it impossible to so do without a strong concept of the social.

The World Trade Center and global crisis : critical perspectives
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ISBN: 0857458647 1845450000 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event. The attack of 9/11 was an event waiting to happen, and when it did occur the even itself became a catalyst and impetus for the changing and redirection of global realities. This volume offers provocative assessments of the reaction to the event from

Beyond rationalism : rethinking magic, witchcraft and sorcery.
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ISBN: 1571814183 0857458558 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Berghahn

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This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the authors are concerned to break away from the dictates of a western externalist rationalist understanding of these phenomena without falling into the trap of mysticism. The articles address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.

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Occultism --- Rationalism --- Witchcraft

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