SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Dystopia in the Desert The Silent Culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities By Tadhgh Purtill
An in-depth look at the odd and alternative world of Australia’s Western Desert. The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities. The region remains obscure because of its detachment from mainstream Australia in distance and culture, but also its peculiar operational culture. This study takes in psychological, economic, political and anthropological aspects of its community system, and reveals a self-sustaining and possibly unreformable situation, suggesting the region has surpassed the merely ‘dysfunctional’: it has become a disturbing independent society characterised by a negative coherency and a dystopian functionality. Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925333862 • Paperback 284 pages • January 2020 • £30.00
Heart of Violence Why People Harm Each Other By Paul Valent
Explores how we can understand violence, from the individual to the international. Violence is the plague of our civilisation. It threatens us daily through its many tentacles: domestic violence, criminal violence, sexual abuse, terrorism, state violence, revolution, war, and genocide. The recently evolved discipline of traumatology has amply described commonalities in the consequences of violence. But there was no corresponding discipline of violentology, which explained why violence occurred in the first place. This book takes the leap from healing the minds of victims to trying to understand the minds of perpetrators.
Australian Scholarly Publishing • 9781925984057 • Paperback 344 pages • January 2020 • £30.00
Psychoanalytical Notes on the Origin of Money By Fabio Benini
Explores the potential origin of the coin in relation to the body. In the ancient world, many units of measurement were based, approximately, on some parts of the human body: arm, cubit, span, inch, foot; or on their functions: pace, half hour, league. This treatise examines the origin of the antique measurement of half a siqlum or half a giĝ (4.25g), its symbolic relation to the discarded foreskin, its connection to forgotten traditions of jewellery rings worn on or in the body, and as the potential origin of the coin.
Mimesis International • 9788869772801 • Paperback 210 x 140mm • 340 pages • September 2020 • £25.99
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