Author Archives: stuartelden

“Models of Ideological Analysis” and “Ideology: Marx and Lukacs” by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lectures of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio)

Posted on August 12, 2025 by stuartelden

“Models of Ideological Analysis” by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio recording) Remastered audio of Fredric Jamesons opening lecture at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society sponsored by the Marxist Literary Group and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Braudel, Wolff, Bourke, Bataille, Felsch

Posted on August 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Some second-hand copies of Fernand Braudel, and Etienne Wolff’s Les chemins de la vie, and copies of Richard Bourke, Hegel’s World Revolutions, Georges Bataille, Critical Essays 2, and Philipp Felsch, The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990. Wolff … Continue reading →

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Thomas M. Wilson ed. Border Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach – Edward Elgar, August 2025

Posted on August 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Thomas M. Wilson ed. Border Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach – Edward Elgar, August 2025 Very expensive hardback only, unfortunately, but e-book also available. This multidisciplinary book provides a diverse overview of social science approaches to geopolitical borders, social boundaries and … Continue reading →

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Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France: A Structural Analysis of the Wolverine in North American Mythology

Posted on August 10, 2025 by stuartelden

In the 1949-50 academic year, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave the Fondation Loubat lectures at the Collège de France. He was hoping to get elected to a chair there at this time, and behind the scenes various people were lobbying for this to … Continue reading →

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Matthew Clayton, Independence for Children – Oxford University Press, March 2025

Posted on August 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Matthew Clayton, Independence for Children – Oxford University Press, March 2025 Independence for Children presents an alternative conception of parenting to those that have dominated our thinking about children and the family to date. It offers an elaboration and defence of … Continue reading →

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Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way – University of Chicago Press, October 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way – University of Chicago Press, October 2025 The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves … Continue reading →

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A postcard to Arne Furumark from the 1956 Mycenaean Studies conference

Posted on August 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Looking for something else, I chanced upon a postcard to Arne Furumark, available online, signed by the participants at the 1956 Mycenaean Studies conference outside of Paris, which I talk about here. Among the names are the decipherers of Linear B, … Continue reading →

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Two-part television interview with Georges Dumézil, CBC 1984

Posted on August 8, 2025 by stuartelden

Two-part television interview with Georges Dumézil, 1984, Rencontres, CBC with Marcel Brisebois Entrevue avec Georges Dumézil (1898-1986), membre de l’Académie française et professeur au Collège de France. Sujets abordés : – La signification du terme «indo-européen» et de «peuples indo-européens» … Continue reading →

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Herbert S. Lewis, Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology – Berghahn Books, December 2024

Posted on August 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Herbert S. Lewis, Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology – Berghahn Books, December 2024 The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and … Continue reading →

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Vicki Squire, Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Precarious Migration – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on August 7, 2025 by stuartelden

Vicki Squire, Making and Unmaking Global Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Precarious Migration – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

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