Amy L Jacobs

Market Day in Provence

When Bodies Remember: Experiences And Politics of AIDS in South Africa

When Bodies Remember: Experiences And Politics of AIDS in South Africa

Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories

Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories

A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology

A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology

An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds

An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)

Under what conditions is anthropology possible today, when a crisis of social meaning—a crisis that makes it more difficult to conceive and manage our relation to the other—makes the need for anthropology appear more clearly than ever before? This book sets forth at least the beginning of an answer ...

The Economics of Creativity: Art and Achievement under Uncertainty

Creative work has been celebrated as the highest form of achievement since at least Aristotle. But our understanding of the dynamics and market for creative work--artistic work in particular--often relies on unexamined clichés about individual genius, industrial engineering of talent, and the fickl...

Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)

Luther and Calvin applied the term fanatic to those who sought to destroy civil society in order to establish the Kingdom of God, the "false prophets" and their followers who, early on in the Reformation, began smashing images in churches and rebelling against princes. Civil Society and Fanaticism i...

Market Day in Provence (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)

At farmers’ markets, we expect to see fruit bursting with juicy sweetness and vegetables greener than a golf course. For Michèle de La Pradelle these expectations are mostly the result of a show performed by merchants and sustained by our propensity to see what we want to see there. Hailed upon its ...

A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology (Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Metisses)

If the end of exoticism is one of the characteristics of our time, and if classical anthropology based its study of alterity on this exotic distance from the other, is anthropology still possible, and if so, to what end? The author uses these questions as a point of departure for a probing interroga...