Sharon Marcus and Caitlin Zaloom are the founders and editors in chief of
Public Books. Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her books include
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007) and
The Drama of Celebrity (2019). Zaloom is associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is the author of
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London (2006) and
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost (2019).
7 Ebooks by Matthew Engelke
Sharon Marcus & Caitlin Zaloom: Think in Public
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the …
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Matthew Engelke: A Problem of Presence
The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as ‘the Christians who don’t read the Bible.’ They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God ‘live and direct’ …
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Matthew Engelke: God’s Agents
The British and Foreign Bible Society is one of the most illustrious Christian charities in the United Kingdom. Founded by evangelicals in the early nineteenth century and inspired by developments in …
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Matthew Engelke & Matt Tomlinson: The Limits of Meaning
Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are ‘meaningful events.’ But what happens when rituals fail, or when they s …
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€33.99
Matthew Engelke: How to Think Like an Anthropologist
From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subject What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter …
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€19.99
Matthew Engelke: Think Like an Anthropologist
What is anthropology? What can it tell us about culture and the world around us? And why do we need it? For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world f …
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€8.49
Daniel Miller: Materiality
Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely mater …
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