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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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Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Agonistic Condition: Materialism and Democracy – Edinburgh University Press, June 2025

Posted on August 6, 2025 by stuartelden

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Agonistic Condition: Materialism and Democracy – Edinburgh University Press, June 2025

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Alison Mountz & Kira Williams, Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard – MIT Press, July 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on August 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Alison Mountz & Kira Williams, Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard – MIT Press, July 2025 (print and open access) An investigative history of the closure of Harvard University’s geography program in the mid-twentieth century due to homophobia … Continue reading →

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Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London – Verso, July 2025

Posted on August 5, 2025 by stuartelden

Matthew Beaumont, Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London – Verso, July 2025 A captivating history of the city at night and the people, writers and workers who inhabit the London darkness In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites – Gallimard, September 2025

Posted on August 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Les Hermaphrodites – Gallimard, September 2025, eds. Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Arianna Sforzini, preface by Arianna Sforzini and a postface by Éric Fassin I’ve shared news of this book before, but the Gallimard site now has a description: En 1978, Michel … Continue reading →

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Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race – Manchester University Press, March 2025

Posted on August 4, 2025 by stuartelden

Claire Blencowe, Spirits of Extraction: Christianity, Settler Colonialism and the Geology of Race – Manchester University Press, March 2025 Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the … Continue reading →

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Herman Lommel and the ancient Aryans – Hegel’s great-grandson, Saussure translator and his links to Benveniste, Dumézil and Wikander

Posted on August 3, 2025 by stuartelden

In Mitra-Varuna in 1940, Georges Dumézil mentions the equation of Ahura-Mazdāh and Varuna, which he says was a “hypothesis, long accepted without argument”, but which “has subsequently been hotly disputed – wrongly, in my belief”, and that “on this point I regret … Continue reading →

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Jeremy DeWaal, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 and New Books discussion

Posted on August 2, 2025 by stuartelden

Jeremy DeWaal, Geographies of Renewal: Heimat and Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1990 – Cambridge University Press, January 2025 New Books discussion with Jenna Pittman – thanks to dmf for the link

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