Insectopedia is the recipient of a special award for extending ethnographic understanding from the society for humanistic anthropology. In these eight stories, the master burglar indulges his passion for cricket and crime. This exceptional collection is indeed about the lives of anthropology in the postwriting culture era. Organized alphabetically with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, insectopedia travels through history and science, anthropology and travel, economics, philosophy, and popular culture to show how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our passions, and beguiled our imaginations. Page where customers can contact raffles bookstore by email, post or telephone.
High quality photographs from singapores top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, size. We accept most major credit cards through the abe checkout, also paypal, postal order, bank transfer and u. Hugh raffles books list of books by author hugh raffles. Hugh raffles eugene lang college of liberal arts the new school. Hugh s essays have appeared in a wide variety of venues, including granta, public culture, cultural anthropology, the new york times, cabinet, and orion. His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including granta, public culture, natural history, orion, american ethnologist, the new york times, and the best american essays. Insectopedia is a series of essays by an anthropologist about how we know and about what raffles considers errors in our beliefs about ourselves. Insectopedia is an exploration of the stunning, ancient, successful, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with which we share this world.
Mar 01, 2010 organizing his book alphabetically with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, hugh raffles embarks on a mesmerizing exploration of history. Sign up for a user account to purchase titles through the iseas publishing website. During the rare occasions when the lodge is closed that saturday, the bookshop will also be closed. His essays have appeared in best american essays, granta, and orion. Hugh raffles is professor of anthropology at the new school for social research and director of the graduate institute for design, ethnography and social thought gidest.
The illustrated insectopedia by hugh raffles goodreads. Hugh raffles reads from insectopedia bookshop santa cruz. To know whether there is a lodge meeting for any particular saturday, go to whats on this month. His work is a sustained ethnographic exploration of relations between humans, animals, and things. Buy a cheap copy of the illustrated insectopedia book by hugh raffles. Gentleman thief raffles is daring, debonair, devilishly handsomeand a firstrate cricketer. Onetime ucsc professor hugh raffles has written a book that is as beautiful as it is informative. Hugh raffles is an anthropologist whose work explores relationships among people, animals, and things. Mar 22, 2011 hugh raffles teaches anthropology at the new school. Prices in sgd are only applicable in case of delivery to singapore, malaysia or brunei darussalam. Hugh raffles is professor of anthropology at the new school for social. The raffles family collection contains over 150 natural history and topographical drawings from indonesia and malaysia, as well as family papers including 184 autograph letters from raffles and correspondence with such luminaries as the abolitionist william wilberforce, the scholar william marsden, and the duke and duchess of somerset and an important collection of diplomatic letters. About the raffles family collection british library.
Former ucsc prof hugh raffles to discuss new ways to interact. Speak with our admissions personnel to find out more. On august 10, 1926, a stinson detroiter sm1 sixseater monoplane took off from the rudimentary airstrip at tallulah, louisiana. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Naval, military, railroad, aviation and automobiles. And just because hugh raffles title, insectopedia, sounds a little like a bug.
Rafflesia is one of the worlds most magnificent flowers and its largest flower. Hand me a volume from an encyclopedia and i likely will not be interested in every single entry. Hugh raffles is director of gidest and professor of anthropology at the new school for social research and eugene lang college. He is the author, most recently, of insectopedia pantheon, 2010, a new york times notable book, and was a recipient of a 2010 whiting writers award. Read insectopedia by hugh raffles available from rakuten kobo. Organizing his book alphabetically, with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, hugh raffles uses the prism of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics and popular culture to show how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our fears, and beguiled our imaginations.
This is both hugh raffless epigraph and the last line of his miraculous book insectopedia, as inventive and wide ranging and full of. Norfolk school of agriculture dedication inside front cover. Hugh raffles, professor in the department of anthropology at the new school, is currently writing insectopedia pantheon, an ambitious book in the form of an abecedarium exploring our variegated relationship with insects. Former ucsc prof hugh raffles to discuss new ways to. Most books are dispatched same day or next working day but certainly within 2 working days. Insectopedia makes us see the world differently perhaps the most one can hope for from a book. Times the bookshop pte ltd marina, corporate profile and product articles. This easytouse identification guide to the 280 bird species most commonly seen in singapore is perfect for resident and visitor alike. A natural history, which received the victor turner prize in ethnographic writing. Duke university press writing culture and the life of. We are a local international school offering the sixyear integrated curriculum leading to the international baccalaureate ib diploma programme. Hugh raffles teaches anthropology at the new school. If you were to judge books by their authors hair, you might be inclined to grab a copy of hugh raffless book insectopedia without thinking twice. Raffles takes the totally different worlds of insects, at times describing them in detail, then contrasts that with the worlds of we humans.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading insectopedia. Insectopedia ebook by hugh raffles 9780307379726 rakuten kobo. Cafe and bookshop, dublin city gallery the hugh lane free. The opening pages of rebecca stotts engaging darwins ghosts find charles darwin in his study at down house. Please note, last orders for the cafe will be 30 minutes before the gallery closes. Darwins ghosts, by rebecca stott the new york times. Jun 22, 2015 raffles bookstore for the sale of new or preloved books at a competitive price. We will gladly supply further images or more information if required. Thomas stamford bingley raffles was born on 5 july 1781 on board the ship ann off the coast of port morant, jamaica, to captain benjamin raffles 1739, london 23 november 1811, deptford and anne raffles nee lyde 1755 8 february 1824, london. Kamarudin mat salleh, a rafflesia expert, outlines rafflesias structure, growth, characteristics, development and other mysteries of the plant. Raffles is a fictional character created in the 1890s by e. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read insectopedia. Hornung, brotherinlaw to sir arthur conan doyle, the creator of sherlock holmes.
And just because hugh raffles title, insectopedia, sounds a little like a bug encyclopedia, it likewise doesnt mean that im going to like, or even read, everything in it. A naturalists guide to the birds of singapore naturalists. The singapore lodge bookshop is open every saturday, from 4. Fortunately, hugh raffles, author of insectopedia, found some time between chairing the. The author, publisher and server of this website andor page provide no guarantees or reassurances whatsoever about the accuracy, legitimacy, or any other statement of fact about the contents, explicitly or otherwise, of any of the pages above and will bear no responsibility of the consequences arising from your use, abuse or misuse of the contents. Insectopedia by hugh raffles, 9781400096961, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Raffles is, in many ways, a deliberate inversion of holmes he is a gentleman thief, living at the albany, a prestigious address in london, playing.
1465 592 182 830 507 13 1556 1019 211 704 1288 1600 1077 1375 221 1067 860 967 163 697 508 1418 228 1500 508 953 259 1028 373 1113 310 858 1188 150 223 260 448