INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 13 (2020) NO. 2

Contents

• Introduction: Special Section on Max Weber and Flu Epidemics - A 100 Years Later

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  The Editors

• ARTICLES

• Max Weber, a Hundred Years After: Again, Alone, Always

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  Arpad Szakolczai

• Weber, Elias and the Ascetic Basis of Modernity

  107

  Paul O’Connor

• An Accelerant of Social Change? The Spanish Flu of 1918-19

  123

  Peter Frost

• Transitory Saviour Visions and the Six Steps to Trickster Logic: Between Limits and the Limitless

  135

  Evan Boyle

• Conversation on Virus Crisis

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  Agnes Horvath, Paul O’Connor, Marius Ion Bența

• Political Death and the Political Afterlife

  155

  Zoltán Balázs

• The Strength of Weak Ties: Some Long-term Consequences of my Ford Fellowship in the USA, 1964-65. An Intellectual Autobiography, Second Part

  171

  Iván Szelényi

• BOOK REVIEW ESSAY

• Roberto Calasso, Il libro di tutti i libri

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  Arpad Szakolczai

• BOOK REVIEWS

• Harald Wydra and Bjorn Thomassen, Handbook of Political Anthropology

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  Matt French

• Kristin Loftsdottir, Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland

  203

  Armando Garcia Teixeira

• NOTES ON THE AUTHORS

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