From Hospitality to Grace: A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus

by Andrew Shryock and Julian Pitt-Rivers

The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life--including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986132527
• ISBN13: 9780986132520
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Hau
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"