Nurit Bird-David

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Nurit Bird-David is affiliated with the following schools: University of Haifa, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Nurit Bird-David is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is best known for her study of the Nayaka hunter-gatherers in South India, upon which she based much of her writings on animism, relational epistemology, and indigenous small-scale communities, and which later inspired additional fieldwork and insights on home-making in contemporary industrial societies, and the theoretical concept of scale in anthropology and other social sciences.

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Nurit Bird-David's Published Works

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“Animism” Revisited (1999) (639)
The Giving Environment: Another Perspective on the Economic System of Gatherer-Hunters (1990) (377)
The Sadness of Sweetness: The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology [and Comments and Reply] (1996) (330)
Beyond "The Original Affluent Society": A Culturalist Reformulation [and Comments and Reply] (1992) (242)
BEYOND 'THE HUNTING AND GATHERING MODE OF SUBSISTENCE': CULTURE-SENSITIVE OBSERVATIONS ON THE NAYAKA AND OTHER MODERN HUNTER-GATHERERS (1992) (114)
Animistic epistemology: Why do some hunter-gatherers not depict animals? (2006) (62)
Sociality and immediacy : or, past and present conversations on bands (1994) (59)
Commodity, gift and mass-gift: on gift–commodity hybrids in advanced mass consumption cultures (2009) (43)
How persons become things: economic and epistemological changes among Nayaka hunter‐gatherers (2014) (42)
Relational Epistemology, Immediacy, and Conservation: Or, What Do the Nayaka Try to Conserve? (2008) (37)
Labor's lot: The power, history, and culture of aboriginal action (1996) (34)
What Is Analysis?: Between Theory, Ethnography, and Method (2018) (31)
Tribal metaphorization of human-nature relatedness: a comparative analysis (2003) (29)
Hunter-gatherers and other people: a re-examination. (1991) (28)
Feeding Nayaka Children and English Readers: A Bifocal Ethnography of Parental Feeding in “The Giving Environment” (2008) (26)
A Moment Dead, a Moment Alive: How a Situational Personhood Emerges in the Vegetative State in an Israeli Hospital Unit (2010) (25)
Size matters! The scalability of modern hunter-gatherer animism (2017) (24)
Before Nation: Scale-Blind Anthropology and Foragers’ Worlds of Relatives (2017) (23)
Animism, conservation and immediacy (2013) (21)
Animism revisited : Personhood, environment, and relational epistemology. Commentaries. Author's reply (1999) (20)
Illness-images and joined beings. A critical/Nayaka perspective on intercorporeality (2004) (20)
The Nilgiri Tribal Systems: A View From Below (1994) (17)
No past, no present: A critical-Nayaka perspective on cultural remembering (2004) (14)
Routinergency: Domestic securitization in contemporary Israel (2017) (14)
Economies: a cultural-economic perspective (2010) (14)
The property of sharing: western analytical notions, Nayaka contexts. (2005) (12)
Studying Children in “Hunter-Gatherer” Societies : Reflections from a Nay oka Perspective (2017) (11)
At Home Under Development: A Housing Project for the Hunter-gatherers Nayaka of the Nilgiris (2014) (7)
Puja or sharing with the Gods ? : On ritualized possession among Nayaka of South India (1996) (7)
4 Studying Children in “ Hunter-Gatherer ” Societies Reflections from a Nayaka Perspective (2004) (6)
Indigenous Architecture and Relational Senses of Personhood (2009) (6)
Single Persons and Social Cohesion in a Hunter-Gatherer Society (1987) (6)
Social intelligence and interaction: Hunter-gatherers' kinship organization: implicit roles and rules (1995) (5)
Technological change and rural Third World women: an impact study in Machakos district eastern Kenya. (2000) (5)
Where have all the kin gone? On hunter-gatherers’ sharing, kinship and scale (2019) (4)
Hunting and Gathering Societies: Anthropology (2015) (3)
Persons or relatives? (2018) (3)
Kinship and scale (2019) (2)
The Social Life of an Ethnonym : The "Kattu Nayaka" of South India (SPECIAL ISSUE : The Bison and the Horn : Indigeneity, Performance, and the State of India) (2014) (2)
Domesticating Spaces of Security in Israel (2019) (1)
Dis/working with Diagrams (2019) (1)
Downscale 4. Taxonomy of Nonhuman Relatives (2019) (0)
Introduction: Scalar Blindness and Forager Worlds (2019) (0)
3. The Sib Matrix: Dyadic and Sequential Logic (2019) (0)
D is / working with D iagrams How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case) (2020) (0)
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism: Animism, conservation and immediacy (2013) (0)
Downscale 5. Family and Ethnonym (2019) (0)
Downscale 3. Tree of Relatives (2019) (0)
Prologue: One of Us (2019) (0)
2. Living Plurally: Mobility and Visiting (2019) (0)
Downscale 1. Maps of Home (2019) (0)
1. At Home: Setting and Mind Setting (2019) (0)
Downscale 2: Census of Relatives (2019) (0)
5. Nonhuman Kin: Unispecies Societies and Plural Communities (2019) (0)
4. Couples and Children: Gender, Caregiving, and Foraging Together (2019) (0)
Economics across Cultures: Towards a Comparative Sciences of the Economy. RHODA H. HALPERIN (1994) (0)
7. The State’s Foragers: The Scale of Multiculturalism (2019) (0)
Epilogue: Pluripresent and Imagined Communities (2019) (0)
Preface: On Anthropology in Israel Response (2016) (0)

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