Publications of Stephen P. Reyna
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Journal Article (50)
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Debate on the nature and significance of Critique. Anthropological Theory 17 (2), p. 261 - 261 (2017)
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Vision statement: anthropological theory from and for everybody. Anthropological Theory 16 (2-3), pp. 320 - 323 (2016)
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The jeweler's loupe: validation. Anthropological Theory 16 (2-3), pp. 295 - 319 (2016)
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Social pointillism and starry nights: making points to make connections in the Sudanese Civil War. Journal of Asian and African Studies 51 (1), pp. 358 - 369 (2016)
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Editors' note to the Lempert-Lambek dialogue. Anthropological Theory 15 (2), p. 127 - 127 (2015)
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Deadly contradictions: global warring theory and the Iraq war, 1991-2011. Dialectical Anthropology 38 (1), pp. 1 - 12 (2014)
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Introduction. Anthropological Theory 12 (1), pp. 3 - 4 (2012)
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Neo-Boasianism, a form of critical structural realism: it's better than the alternative. Anthropological Theory 12 (1), pp. 73 - 99 (2012)
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An epistemological turn: cheating the death ray of bathos by building an anthropology of hypocrisy (using Foucault). Critique of Anthropology 32 (4), pp. 458 - 478 (2012)
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Boas's dream: the emergence of neuroanthropology. Anthropology News 53 (6), pp. S1 - S14 (2012)
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Don't throw the baby out with the bathos: regimes of truth in an anthropology of hypocrisy. Transforming Anthropology 19 (2), pp. 165 - 171 (2011)
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Assessing bias: the qualitative in the quantitative, Darfuri War fatalities and the morality of war. Sociology Mind 1 (3), pp. 105 - 113 (2011)
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The disasters of war in Darfur, 1950-2004. Third World Quarterly 31 (8), pp. 1297 - 1320 (2010)
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Taking place: ‘new wars’ versus global wars. Social Anthropology 17 (3), pp. 291 - 317 (2009)
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Jonathan Friedman and the "insurrection of subjugated knowledges". Focaal 55, pp. 90 - 100 (2009)
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Global warring today: 'Maybe somebody needs to explain'. Social Analysis 52 (2), pp. 50 - 70 (2008)
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The crazy curse and crude domination: toward an anthropology of oil. Focaal 52, pp. 3 - 17 (2008)
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Waiting: the sorcery of modernity, transnational corporations, oil and terrorism in Chad. Sociologus 57 (1), pp. 11 - 39 (2007)
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The traveling model that wouldn’t travel, or developing dystopia: oil, empire, and patrimonialism in contemporary Chad. Social Analysis 51 (3), pp. 78 - 102 (2007)
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Waiting: the sorcery of modernity, transnational corporations, oil and terrorism in Chad. Sociologus 57 (1), pp. 11 - 39 (2007)
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The traveling model that would not travel: oil, empire, and patrimonialism in contemporary Chad. Social Analysis 51 (3), pp. 78 - 102 (2007)
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Why development really fails: oil, empire and patrimonialism in contemporary Chad. Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies 26 (4), pp. 104 - 134 (2007)
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What is interpretation? A cultural neurohermeneutic account. Focaal 2006 (48), pp. 131 - 143 (2006)
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American imperialism? "The current runs swiftly". Focaal 45, pp. 129 - 151 (2005)
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"We exist to fight": the killing elite and Bush II's Iraq War. Social Analysis 49 (1), pp. 190 - 197 (2005)
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A bureaucratic drop in the bucket: who is reviewing science? Anthropology News 46 (8), pp. 5 - 7 (2005)
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Comment on James P. Boggs "The culture concept as theory, in context". Current Anthropology 45 (2), pp. 201 - 202 (2004)
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Force, power, and the problem of order: an anthropological approach. Sociologus 53 (2), pp. 199 - 223 (2003)
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Unimagined states: a structural history of warfare in Chad (1968-1990). Virajes 5 (1), pp. 57 - 72 (2002)
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Theory counts: (discounting) discourse to the contrary by adopting a confrontational stance. Anthropological Theory 1 (1), pp. 9 - 29 (2001)
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Editorial: the six-field system. Anthropological Theory 1 (1), pp. 5 - 7 (2001)
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The owl in the twilight: cultural anthropologies of Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins. Reviews in Anthropology 28 (3), pp. 173 - 187 (1999)
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Right and might: of approximate truths and moral judgements. Identities 4 (3-4), pp. 431 - 465 (1998)
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The pursuit of knowledge and regimes of truth. Identities 4 (3-4), pp. 333 - 341 (1998)
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Theory in anthropology in the nineties. Cultural Dynamics 9 (3), pp. 325 - 350 (1997)
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The dating game: "romancing" development knowledge and the national bourgeois among the desert palms Of Mauritania. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 26 (3/4), pp. 331 - 367 (1997)
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Science, pseudo-science and interpretation. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2 (2), pp. 351 - 352 (1996)
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Science - artichoke or onion? Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1 (3), pp. 628 - 631 (1995)
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Sometimes to be less than brilliant is brilliant: an accumulation of labour approach to the domestic mode of production. Man 29 (1), pp. 161 - 180 (1994)
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Comment on Orin Starn "Rethinking the politics of anthropology: the case of the Andes". Current Anthropology 35 (1), p. 31 - 31 (1994)
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Literary anthropology and the case against science. Man 29 (3), pp. 555 - 581 (1994)
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Some easy things are hard: three variations on a "hands off" problematic. Reviews in Anthropology 20 (1), pp. 43 - 53 (1991)
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The emergence of land concentration in the West African savanna. American Ethnologist 14 (3), pp. 523 - 541 (1987)
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Barma bridewealth: socialization and the reproduction of labour in a domestic African economy. Africa 54 (4), pp. 59 - 72+88 (1984)
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Dual class formation and agrarian underdevelopment: an analysis of the articulation of production relations in Upper Volta. Canadian Journal of African Studies 17 (2), pp. 211 - 233 (1983)
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Social evolution: a learning-theory approach. Journal of Anthropological Research 35 (3), pp. 336 - 349 (1979)
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Marriage payments, household structure, and domestic labour-supply among the Barma of Chad. Africa 47 (1), pp. 81 - 88 (1977)
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The rationality of divorce: marital instability among the Barma of Chad. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 8 (2), pp. 269 - 288 (1977)
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The extending strategy: regulation of the household dependency ratio. Journal of Anthropological Research 32 (2), pp. 182 - 198 (1976)
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Making do when the rains stop: adjustment of domestic structure to climatic variation among the Barma. Ethnology 14 (4), pp. 405 - 417 (1975)
Book Chapter (21)
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Free will, agency, and the cultural, reflexive brain. In: Handbook of neuroethics, pp. 323 - 342 (Eds. Clausen, J.; Levy, N.). Springer, Dordrecht (2015)
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Afterword: friendship in a world of force and power. In: Friendship, descent and alliance in Africa: anthropological perspectives, pp. 161 - 179 (Eds. Guichard, M.; Grätz, T.; Diallo, Y.). Berghahn, New York (2014)
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"Attends!" ou la sorcellerie de la modernité: les multinationales, le pétrole et le terrorisme au Tchad. In: Sorcellerie et violence en Afrique, pp. 281 - 307 (Eds. Martinelli, B.; Bouju, J.). Karthala, Paris (2012)
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'Against ... domination': oil and war in Chechnya. In: Crude domination: an anthropology of oil, pp. 270 - 297 (Eds. Behrends, A.; Reyna, S. P.; Schlee, G.) (2011)
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Constituting domination/constructing monsters: imperialism, cultural desire and Anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state. In: Crude domination: an anthropology of oil, pp. 132 - 164 (Eds. Behrends, A.; Reyna, S. P.; Schlee, G.). Berghahn, New York (2011)
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Heaven on earth: the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise again of the concept of progress in Anglo-American anthropology. In: Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, pp. 110 - 132 (Eds. Adams, D.; Tihanov, G.). Legenda, London (2011)
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The crazy curse and crude domination: towards an anthropology of oil. In: Crude domination: an anthropology of oil, pp. 3 - 29 (Eds. Behrends, A.; Reyna, S. P.; Schlee, G.). Berghahn, New York (2011)
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Hard truths: addressing a crisis in ethnography. In: Beyond writing culture: current intersections of epistemologies and representational practices, pp. 163 - 185 (Eds. Zenker, O.; Kumoll, K.). Berghahn, New York (2010)
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Global warring today: 'Maybe somebody needs to explain'. In: An anthropology of war: views from the frontline, pp. 50 - 70 (Ed. Warterston, A.). Berghahn, New York (2009)
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'By these means he is able to procure what he is most in need of': predatory accumulation and state formation in Bagirmi (1846-1877). In: Land, literacy and the state in Sudanic Africa, pp. 77 - 102 (Ed. Crummey, D.). Red Sea Press, Trenton (2005)
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Friedman, Jonathan Ames. In: Biographical dictionary of social and cultural anthropology, pp. 179 - 180 (Ed. Amit, V.). Routledge, London (2004)
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Imagining monsters: a structural history of warfare in Chad (1968-1990). In: Globalization, the state, and violence, pp. 279 - 308 (Ed. Friedman, J.). AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek (2003)
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A Cold War story: the barbarization of Chad (1966-1991). In: The state, identity and violence: political desintegration in the post-Cold War world, pp. 261 - 284 (Ed. Ferguson, R. B.). Routledge, London (2003)
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Deadly developments and phantasmagoric representations. In: The anthropology of politics: a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique, pp. 301 - 312 (Ed. Vincent, J.). Blackwell, Oxford (2002)
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The force of two logics: predatory and capital accumulation in the making of the Great Leviathan, 1415-1763. In: Deadly developments: capitalism, states and war, pp. 23 - 67 (Ed. Reyna, S. P.). Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam (1999)
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Introduction: deadly developments and phantasmagoric representations. In: Deadly developments: capitalism, states and war, pp. 1 - 21 (Eds. Reyna, S. P.; Downs, R.E.). Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam (1999)
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Literary anthropology. In: The dictionary of anthropology, 1. ed. Ed., pp. 294 - 295 (Ed. Barfield, T.). Blackwell, Oxford (1997)
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Introduction. In: The political economy of African famine, 2. ed. Ed., pp. 1 - 20 (Eds. Downs, R. E.; Kerner, D. O.; Reyna, S. P.). Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia (1993)
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Cultural construction in a "Garden of Eden": the influence of ontological acquiescence in an African development project and its implications for food security. In: The political economy of African famine, 2. ed. Ed., pp. 71 - 89 (Eds. Downs, R. E.; Kerner, D. O.; Reyna, S. P.). Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia (1993)
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What is to be done?: a historical structural approach to warfare and famine. In: The political economy of African famine, 2. ed. Ed., pp. 339 - 371 (Eds. Downs, R. E.; Kerner, D. O.; Reyna, S. P.). Gordon and Breach, Philadelphia (1993)
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Age differential, marital instability, and venereal disease: factors affecting fertility among the Northwest Barma. In: Population and social organization, pp. 55 - 74 (Ed. Nag, M.). Mouton, The Hague; Paris (1975)
Working Paper (3)
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Working Paper
Hard truth and validation: what Zeus understood. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 65 (2004), 76 pp.
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Working Paper
Force, power, and string being? Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 20 (2001), 31 pp.
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Bridewealth revisited: socialization and the reproduction of labor in a domestic African economy. Working Papers on Women in International Development 80 (1985), 22 pp.
Issue (3)
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Positioning theory: a re-launch of the journal Anthropological Theory (Special issue). Anthropological Theory 16, (2-3) (2016)
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Neuroanthropology (Special issue). Anthropological Theory 12, (1) (2012), 111 pp.
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Toward an anthropology of oil and domination (Special issue). Focaal 52 (2008)
Other (2)
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Other
Is Trump a legitimate president?, (2017)
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Other
Globale Kriegsführung, Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung I: Integration und Konflikt 2007, pp. 139 - 141 (2007)
Book Review (19)
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Book Review
Myhre, Knut Christian (ed.). Cutting and connecting: ‘Afrinesian’ perspectives on networks, relationality, and exchange. vi, 162 pp. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 (1), pp. 231 - 232 (2017)
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Book Review
Oil wealth and insurgency in Nigeria by Omolade Adunbi. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 6 (2), pp. 125 - 127 (2016)
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Book Review
The depths of Russia: oil, power, and culture after socialism, by Douglas Rogers. Anthropological Forum, pp. 1 - 3 (2016)
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Fry, Douglas P. (ed.): war, peace, and human nature. The convergence of evolutionary and cultural views. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 562 pp. Anthropos 109 (2), pp. 685 - 686 (2014)
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Carbon democracy: political power in the age of oil. Timothy Mitchell (London and New York: Verso, 2012). PoLAR 36 (1), pp. 186 - 188 (2013)
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Book Review
Janet Roitman: Fiscal disobedience: an anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa. Sociologus 57 (1), pp. 135 - 137 (2007)
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I am dynamite: an alternative anthropology of power by Nigel Rapport. Journal of Anthropological Research 62 (3), pp. 375 - 376 (2006)
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A history of anthropological theory: Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy. Journal of Anthropological Research 60 (3), pp. 441 - 442 (2004)
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The saving lie: truth and method in the social sciences; F. G. Bailey. Journal of Anthropological Research 60 (2), pp. 264 - 266 (2004)
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Empire: a dazzling performance according to a simpleton; a review of Empire by M. Hardt and A. Negri. Anthropological Theory 2 (4), pp. 489 - 497 (2002)
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Book Review
Arid ways: cultural understandings of insecurity in Fulbe society, Central Mali; Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 3 (2), pp. 406 - 407 (1997)
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Book Review
Revolution and power: putting oppression center stage. Reviews in Anthropology 25 (2), pp. 85 - 94 (1996)
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Book Review
Arise ye mighty people!: gender, class and race in popular struggles. Terisa E. Turner with Bryan J. Ferguson, eds. Trenton, N. J.: Africa World Press, 1994. Identities 3 (1-2), pp. 295 - 298 (1996)
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Book Review
Unsocial analyses: habitus, hegemony, and self. Reviews in Anthropology 23 (3), pp. 189 - 203 (1994)
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Hunger in history: food shortage, poverty, and deprivation; Lucile F. Newman, gen. ed. William Crossgrove, Robert W. Kates, Robley Matthews, Sara Millman, assoc. eds. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 8 (2), pp. 245 - 247 (1994)
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Book Review
Beyond the family: the social organization of human reproduction; A. F. Robertson. Contemporary Sociology 22 (1), pp. 90 - 91 (1993)
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Enhancing agriculture in Africa: a role for U.S. development assistance. American Anthropologist 92 (1), pp. 222 - 223 (1990)
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Book Review
Economic anthropology: topics and theories. American Anthropologist 87 (1), pp. 172 - 173 (1985)
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Book Review
L'homme, le fait social et le fait politique: Georges Davy. American Anthropologist 78 (3), pp. 654 - 655 (1976)
Collected Edition (6)
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Collected Edition
Crude domination: an anthropology of oil. Berghahn, New York; Oxford (2011), VI, 325 pp.
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Collected Edition
Deadly developments: capitalism, states and war. Gordon and Breach, Amsterdam (1999), VI, 282 pp.