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      Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia

      Stanley J. Tambiah

      This work is concerned with the ethno-nationalist explosions that have occurred in many regions of the world. It focuses primarily on collective violence, in the form of civilian riots in…

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      Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

      Stanley J. Tambiah (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      In the Western tradition, the boundaries between magic, science and religion have been continually contested. In this straightforward text, Professor Tambiah shows that modern anthropological theorists drew upon the classical…

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      Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality

      Stanley J. Tambiah (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      In this text, Professor Tambiah shows that modern anthropological theorists drew upon the classical sources but introduced new, ethnographic case materials. An account of the theories of Tylor, Frazer, Malinowski…

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      Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life

      Stanley J. Tambiah (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910-1989), one of Britain’s foremost social and cultural anthropologists. Leach’s work includes kinship and social organization; tenure and peasant economy; and biblical narratives…

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      Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations

      Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies – stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas - collected to represent a form of…

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      Radical Egalitarianism: Local Realities, Global Relations

      Contributions from scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies – stemming from research in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas - collected to represent a form of…

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