Anthropology
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Religion (Hardcover)
Beyond a Concept Edited by Hent de VriesPrice: $95.00What do we talk about when we talk about “religion”? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence unpredictable—perhaps the very emergence of the new? In what ways are the legacies of religion—its powers, words,...
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Mornings at the Stanton Street Shul (Hardcover)
A Summer on the Lower East Side Jonathan BoyarinPrice: $24.95In these pages Jonathan Boyarin invites us to share the intimate life of the Stanton Street Shul, one of the last remaining Jewish congregations on New York’s historic Lower East Side. This narrow building, wedged into a lot designed for an old-law tenement, is full of clamorous...
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Things (Hardcover)
Religion and the Question of Materiality Edited by Dick Houtman, and Birgit MeyerPrice: $90.00This volume addresses the relation between religion and things. That relation has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, privileging spirit above matter, belief above ritual and objects, meaning above form, and “inward” contemplation above “outward” action. After all,...
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Things (Paperback)
Religion and the Question of Materiality Edited by Dick Houtman, and Birgit MeyerPrice: $35.00This volume addresses the relation between religion and things. That relation has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, privileging spirit above matter, belief above ritual and objects, meaning above form, and “inward” contemplation above “outward” action. After all,...
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War in Worcester (Hardcover)
Youth and the Apartheid State Pamela ReynoldsPrice: $75.00The South African government gave no quarter to young people who joined the struggle against the apartheid state; indeed, it targeted them. Security forces meted out cruel treatment to youth who rebelled, incarcerated even the very young under dreadful conditions, and used torture frequently,...
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