The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
By: Michael Taussig
3.95
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plant…
Want to Read $ 16.46"Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of toil, man has become the slave of tools and the industry has become synonymous with business and people have been duped into asking, “what’s good for business?"-Michael Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
"Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of toil, man has become the slave of tools and the industry has become synonymous with business and people have been duped into asking, “what’s good for business?"-Michael Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
"Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of toil, man has become the slave of tools and the industry has become synonymous with business and people have been duped into asking, “what’s good for business?"-Michael Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
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1. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
By: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
3.68
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
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"Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he forced me to turn around and take in the full sweep of the mountains and the…"-Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
2. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa) (Volume 57)
By: James Ferguson
3.92
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
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"[W]e might do better here to think of culture as fashion. And in fashion, of course, the key is not wearing a particular outfit but being able to wear it ... Clothing is a mere collection of garments…"-James Ferguson, Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (Perspectives on Southern Africa) (Volume 57)
3. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh
4.22
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more
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"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
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"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
4. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
By: Kathi Weeks
4.19
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labo… read more
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"Freedom thus depends on collective action rather than individual will, and this is what makes it political. Though freedom is, by account, a relational practice, it is not a zero-sum game in which th…"-Kathi Weeks, The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
5. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
6. Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
By: Trevor R. Getz , Liz Clarke
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
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7. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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8. Stone Age Economics
By: Marshall Sahlins
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
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9. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
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10. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
By: Eduardo Kohn
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very founda… read more
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11. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
By: None , John Womack Jr.
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in th… read more
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12. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
By: Peter Linebaugh , Marcus Rediker
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Using a decade of original research into the 17th and 18th century, this text unearths ideas and st… read more
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13. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
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14. Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have reject… read more
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15. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
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16. Empire
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3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardtand … read more
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4.03
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
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18. Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
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3.00
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
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19. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
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3.78
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20. Europe and the People Without History
By: Eric R. Wolf
4.27
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
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21. The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
By: Marcel Mauss
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
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22. Totem and Taboo
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
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23. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
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24. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
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"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
25. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
26. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
By: Neil Bradbury
4.12
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"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
27. Paradais
By: Fernanda Melchor
3.64
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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
28. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
By: James Clifford
3.89
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
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29. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
By: Michael Taussig
3.95
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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30. The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
By: Annemarie Mol
4.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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31. The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society (Henry Louis Morgan Lecture Series)
By: Nancy D. Munn
3.73
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
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