Bruce Kapferer

10 books

Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology by Bruce Kapferer, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

Against Exoticism: Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

Bruce Kapferer, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

174 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology by Bruce Kapferer

2001 and Counting: Kubrick, Nietzsche, and Anthropology

Bruce Kapferer

100 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced
A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka by Bruce Kapferer

A Celebration of Demons: Exorcism and the Aesthetics of Healing in Sri Lanka

Bruce Kapferer

388 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective medium-paced
Democracy's Paradox: Populism and Its Contemporary Crisis by

Democracy's Paradox: Populism and Its Contemporary Crisis

Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

100 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics
The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power by Bruce Kapferer
The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power
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Bruce Kapferer

The Feast of the Sorcerer: Practices of Consciousness and Power

Bruce Kapferer

388 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion informative medium-paced
Intellectual Complicity: The State and Its Destructions by Bruce Kapferer
Intellectual Complicity: The State and Its Destructions
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Bruce Kapferer

Intellectual Complicity: The State and Its Destructions

Bruce Kapferer

100 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) by Bruce Kapferer

Legends of People, Myths of State: Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

Bruce Kapferer

288 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ruptures by Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, Julia F. Sauma

Ruptures

Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, Julia F. Sauma

248 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction
Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life by Bruce Kapferer, Victor Turner

Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life

Bruce Kapferer, Victor Turner

348 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced
Transaction and Meaning: Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behavior by Bruce Kapferer

Transaction and Meaning: Directions in the Anthropology of Exchange and Symbolic Behavior

Bruce Kapferer

300 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

medium-paced