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What counts as too close for comfort? How can an entire room suddenly feel restless at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? And who decides whether or not we are already in an age of unliveable extremes? The anthropology of intensity studies how humans encounter and communicate the continuous and gradable features of social and environmental phenomena in everyday interactions. Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a Mayan village in the cloud forests of Guatemala, this book provides a natural history of intensity in exceedingly tense times, through a careful analysis of ethnographic and linguistic evidence. It uses intensity as a way to reframe Anthropology in the age of the Anthropocene, and rethinks classic work in the formal linguistic tradition from a culture-specific and context-sensitive stance. It is essential reading for not only anthropologists and linguists, but also for ecologically oriented readers, critical theorists, and environmental scientists.
PAUL KOCKELMAN is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His books include Kinds of Value: An Experiment in Modal Anthropology (Prickly Paradigm Press) and The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation (Oxford University Press).
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Kockelman The Anthropology of Intensity
The Anthropology of Intensity
The Anthropology of Intensity Language, Culture, and Environment
Paul Kockelman
Cover image: Gulgun Ulusoy/Moment/Getty Images
The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies Lu Ann De Cunzo Catharine Dann Roeber
A fresh and comprehensive account of 21st century approaches to material culture, exploring and challenging disciplinary boundaries.
Cosmopolitan Sexuality
The Anthropology of Intensity
The Anthropology of Hijras in Contemporary India Ahonaa Roy
Language, Culture, and Environment Paul Kockelman
August 2022 9781108490443 Hardback TBA / TBA
By using a linguistic and anthropological framework, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the Anthropocene. New Departures in Anthropology May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781009011075 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology June 2022 244 x 170 mm c.800pp 9781108474610 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
Trade before Civilization Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity Edited by Johan Ling Richard Chacon and Kristian Kristiansen
This volume analyses the relationship between longdistance trade and the rise of inequality and social complexity. July 2022 253 x 177 mm c.400pp 9781316514689 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C
Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History through Objects Andrew Shapland
A History Jean-Claude Poursat Carl Knappett
Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature. May 2022 253 x 177 mm c.300pp 9781009151542 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
This volume is one of the most comprehensive and illustrated textbook for Aegean prehistory yet to appear in English. May 2022 279 x 216 mm c.550pp 9781108471343 Hardback £195.00 / US$255.00 R
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ARCHAEOLOGY
Human Prehistory Exploring the Past to Understand the Future Deborah Barsky
Human prehistory is an effective tool for adopting an evolutionary perspective on present day and future challenges humans face. July 2022 253 x 177 mm c.288pp 9781009011990 Paperback c. £28.99 / c. US$36.99 X
Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies Sarah Murray
Breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture. June 2022 253 x 177 mm c.350pp 9781316510933 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
