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By re-examining the archaeological evidence from salvage campaigns in Egypt and Sudan using anthropological and economic theories, this book offers a fresh view of exchange patterns between Egypt and Lower Nubia in the 4th millennium BC and how these relationships changed.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Our Love-Hate Relationship with Hatred -- 1. Us Versus Them -- 2. Hate Talk: The Mind/Language Connection -- 3. Hate Is Cool -- Part II. Hate, American Style -- 4. Youthful Hatred: Are We Tough Enough? -- 5. Glamorized Hatred: Our Obsession with Serial Killers -- 6. Organized Hatred: Supremacy Movements -- Conclusion: Freeing Ourselves from our Obsession with Hatred and Violence -- Appendix 1. The Five Most Critical Resolutions Each of Us Can Make to Free Ourselves from Our Obsession with Hatred and Violence -- Appendix 2. Self-Assessment Tools -- Appendix 3. Twenty-Five Small Steps Toward Freeing Ourselves from Our Obsession with Hatred and Violence -- Appendix 4. Tips for Parents (and Teachers): Raising Hate-Free and Hate-Proof Kids -- Appendix 5. Resources -- Notes -- Index

An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respectively), now does the same for the "subject" and subjectivity. In studying the human subject and the way human culture mirrors itself, Wagner has redefined holography as "the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency."