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Paradigm ; eBook Series

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  • The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

    The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-century Brazil

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series Book 41 - Paradigm ;
    In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also had a tendency to forget the missionaries’ lessons and “revert” to their natural state of war, cannibalism, and polygamy. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Marvelous Possessions

    The Wonder of the New World

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "A marvelous book . . . a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'the wonder of the New World.'" —Anthony Pagden, Times Literary SupplementPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorA masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

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  • The Gift Of Thanks

    The Roots, Persistence, and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual

    by Margaret Visser ...
    In The Gift of Thanks, Margaret Visser continues her exploration of the cultural implications of common objects and ordinary behaviour. The simple habit of saying “thank you,” and indeed the entire notion of gratitude itself, becomes a key to understanding many of the basic assumptions, preferences and needs underlying Western culture. Taking into consideration cultural history; questions of ... Read more

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  • Aztecs

    An Interpretation

    by Inga Clendinnen ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the ... Read more

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  • Treatise on the Gods

    by H.L. Mencken ...
    "I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same pathetic attempt to resolve it by appealing to higher powers."--from Treatise on the GodsH. L. Mencken is ... Read more

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  • From Shame to Sin

    by Kyle Harper ...
    The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • THE INEQUALITY OF HUMAN RACES

    The rise and fall of civilisations

    by Arthur De Gobineau ...
    Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races) (1853–1855) by Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau was intended as a work of philosophical enquiry into decline and degeneration. It is today considered as one of the earliest examples of scientific racism. Expanding upon Boulainvilliers' use of ethnography to defend the Ancien Regime against the claims of the ... Read more

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  • Natural Symbols

    Explorations in Cosmology

    by Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding ... Read more

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  • Ritual and Belief

    Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

    Edited by David Hicks ...
    Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its ... Read more

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  • Ishi Means Man

    Essays on Native Americans

    by Thomas Merton ...
    Thomas Merton's thought-provoking book is a series of essays about various Amerindian cultures. ... Read more

    $9.17 CAD