Books published by Zone Books

Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures.

In this landmark text in anthropology and political science, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indian groups that, though without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent and complex.

Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.

The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere lives to be rescued.

Women's bodies and the study of anatomy in Italy between the late thirteenth and the mid-sixteenth centuries.

Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) was already an established neuropsychologist when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in the 1930s. This book, his magnum opus and widely regarded as a modern classic in psychology and biology, grew out of his dissatisfaction with traditional natural science techniques for analyzing living beings.

An original, elegant, and far-reaching philosophical inquiry into what it means to feel alive.

Why do nation-states wall themselves off despite widespread proclamations of global connectedness?

How the ear came to play a central role in modern culture and rationality.

A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.

Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence.

A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions without the institution of marriage.

Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains.

The first English-language publication of a major history of the Great Lakes region of Africa.

A far-reaching philosophical investigation into the persistence and disappearance of speech, in individuals and in linguistic communities.

Rituals of war and images of violence in Mesopotamia ca. 3000-500 BCE examined as "magical technologies of warfare."

The past, present, and future prospects of nongovernmental politics--political activism that withdraws from traditional government but not from the politics associated with governing.

An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens.