Prickly Paradigm Press is a new incarnation of Prickly Pear Pamphlets, which was started in 1993, in
Cambridge
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,
England
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, by anthropologists
Keith Hart and
Anna Grimshaw. Together they published a series of ten pamphlets on a range of topics in anthropology, the history of science, and ethnographic film. In 1998, Mark Harris and
Matthew Engelke
Matthew Engelke (born 1972) is an Anthropology, anthropologist and author specializing in religion, media, public culture, secularism, and humanism. Regionally, his Ethnography, ethnographic focus is on Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom.
Education ...
took over the press, expanding its operations in the world market and adding a select few titles to its list. In 2001,
Marshall Sahlins took over the press, renamed it Prickly Paradigm, and re-published his own pamphlet (''Waiting for Foucault'') and also
Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he had strong interests and training in both the history of philosophy and in contemporary analytic ...
's. In 2004,
Justin Shaffner
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* Justin (historian), a Latin historian who lived under the Roman Empire
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scanned the original Prickly Pear pamphlets into a PDF format and made them freely available for distribution on the Internet.
"AAA Welcomes Justin Shaffner as Book Review Editor for Digital Book Review Process"
American Anthropological Association.
See also
* Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...
* List of anthropologists
A
*John Adair
* B. R. Ambedkar
* Giulio Angioni
* Jon Altman
*Arjun Appadurai
*Talal Asad
*Timothy Asch
* Scott Atran
*Marc Augé
B
* Nigel Barley
*Fredrik Barth
*Vasily Bartold
*Keith H. Basso
* Daisy Bates
*Gregory Bateson
* Mary Catherine ...
* Small press
* List of small presses
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References
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External links
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Publishing companies established in 1993