From Hospitality to Grace: A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus - Softcover

Pitt-Rivers, Julian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986132527 ISBN 13: 9780986132520

Publisher: HAU, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Julian A. Pitt-Rivers (1919-2001) was a British social anthropologist and ethnographer of Andalusian and Mediterranean societies. Giovanni da Col is a research fellow in the department of anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the founder of HAU Books and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Andrew Shryock is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Edition details

• Publisher: HAU
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986132527
• ISBN 13: 9780986132520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 546
• Editor: Da Col Giovanni, Shryock Andrew