David zeitlyn

Professor of Social Anthropology

[David zeitlyn @DavidZeitlyn]

Anthropological toolkit now as hypertext

I have made a hypertext of the cross references in my short book "Anthropological toolkit: 60 useful concepts"

There's also a visualisation of the link network

https://t.co/haSyVxTpt3

Buy the book: https://t.co/9tINbHV2XX

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Great review & book is half-price till 31 Jan 26
https://t.co/9tINbHVANv

This "is a plea for intellectual openness and conceptual curiosity … This principle is perfectly implemented. P 225-6

A. F. Delouis - Ethn. franç. 2025/3 v55: 224-226 https://t.co/2fifsye3qQ

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Too cheap? "Toolkit" book for a fiver
Berghahn have a summer sale so you can get a paperback copy of "Anthropological toolkit" for just 5 pound sterling !!!
https://t.co/bsZb3EDxB1

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New essay "Spider Divination" now published on Aeon https://t.co/gGLOFAU6uk
#divination #tarot #astrology

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I just published Wikipedia everywhere? https://t.co/OfelKXP28v A small piece about researching Cameroon admin history

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Last chance to see

the divination Exhibition: Oracles Omens Answers closes Sunday 27April 2025

https://t.co/MQQZ4JKe10

david

[David zeitlyn @DavidZeitlyn]

New video

A very small video about the lives of circles and lines (plus some questions about how we see them) is now on youtube

https://t.co/UOt5VDuwyZ

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@TheTLS @maryhitchman Thanks very much for this encouraging review. FYI we are studying contemporary divinatory usage: see the online survey at https://t.co/zey5GuruEl

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'It is a snapshot of how and why people have sought answers to their difficult questions.'

Mary Hitchman (@maryhitchman) on chickens, spiders, video games: how we try to know more about our lives
https://t.co/HgEnoocmuI

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Five+ways+to+predict+the+future+from+around+the+world+–+from+spider+divination+to+bibliomancy https://t.co/TEZz1lSwBQ via @ConversationUK

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What should I do? Why people find divination gives helpful advice
https://t.co/QQJEjfrHWp
Introducing Spider Divination and an exhibition in Oxford addressing why divination is ancient, global and continues to this day. People want concrete answers not statistics.

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Since nothing else is happening today I thought I should let the world know that notes for classroom use of the book "Anthropological Toolkit" are now online at https://t.co/XhrBpGck7M
Hope these are helpful. david

[David zeitlyn @DavidZeitlyn]

Dear all, an interview about

my book "Anthropological Toolkit" is now on the new books network

https://t.co/JW6vCrwMmM

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Argument for Sparsity video
Dear All

a very short (sparse) video about my 2023  JRAI article "An argument for sparsity" is now on youtube

https://t.co/gXlDIUg6wM

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BOOK EVENT: Join Berghahn author @DavidZeitlyn for the hybrid book launch of his book AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TOOLKIT. Monday 5 December 2022, 4.00pm-6.00pm (GMT). View details: https://t.co/5ZWYmc8lIZ Learn more about the book: https://t.co/PxYT8g3JJT

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In this episode, @DavidZeitlyn discusses his new book!
@oxford_anthro
https://t.co/9xyEFmyZ3j
#anthropology #theory

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New short book on theoretical eclecticism: ‘An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty useful concepts’
https://t.co/9tINbHV2XX
It is published in paperback (only £9.99!), hardback and as an eBook.
I have put a tiny video about it on youtube:

https://t.co/dRQHMP8e9F

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An interview from the knowshow about divination and photography in Cameroon is now online https://t.co/NtnqxXfSea

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Discussion of my divination book: https://t.co/424tGxI3bJ

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New Book on Mambila divination now published: See:

https://t.co/W5anIGsZYC