..., of the enterprise of anthropology. Here, our orientation turns toward the “discipline” or project Marlon Riggs called “anthropology . . . the unending search for what is utterly precious.” Black gay lesbian Long 1980s intellectual history ...

... additional states. Given that the portrait of the city visibly changed over time, especially with select sixteenth-century sites, the matrices and their first-state prints became precious relics worthy of patrician Wunderkammer collections. The collected life of the wooden blocks, however, lacks certainty...

... The Venetian diarist Marin Sanudo observed: “Venice is in the water and has no water.” Indeed, the city had no source of fresh water other than the rain from heaven or barges from the mainland. The Venetians learned early on how to capture this precious natural resource by devising an ingenious...

... imagined as the ultimate object of dissimulation. Moving between Richard Hofstadter’s account of paranoid style and the theatrical efforts made by precarious scavengers of precious metals to access both value and the power of the state, the chapter reflects on the analytical operations by which resemblance...

... of the sixteenth century, the six blocks of pearwood were passed to unknown and undocumented printers, resulting in two additional states. Given that the portrait of the city visibly changed over time, especially with select sixteenth-century sites, the matrices and their first-state prints became precious relics...

... Domenico di Piero (1406–97) was a jeweler, an antiquarian, and a collector active in Venice during most of the fifteenth century. By the end of his life, he had amassed a huge fortune consisting of a collection of precious objects, cash, and real estate holdings. Chapter 19 establishes...

... This chapter weaves together these struggles over counting, struggles that encompass repair, territory, land, subsistence, money, resources, and networks, and connects them to historic memory, which increasingly includes Classic Maya numeracy—which is, like bones or gold, a precious thing...

....” Indeed, the city had no source of fresh water other than the rain from heaven or barges from the mainland. The Venetians learned early on how to capture this precious natural resource by devising an ingenious system of water recovery, with cisterns hidden beneath almost every campo, cloister...

... and the trade-union movement and to stake a bold claim to popular legitimacy. With Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz as his minister of mines and petroleum, he dramatically declared the nationalization of Bolivian Gulf Oil on 17 October 1969. With the recuperation of Bolivia’s precious oil, Ovando proclaimed...

... space. The project was intended to connect principal urban sites with mining and rubber zones. Calderón envisioned that access to the rubber region in the Beni would stimulate trade with Brazil and allow for Bolivian export of precious tropical products. But in the end, the lines that were built...

..., which increasingly includes Classic Maya numeracy—which is, like bones or gold, a precious thing extracted from the ground. Reenergized by the global fascination with 2012, activists are drawing on the Maya’s famous mathematical skills to reinvigorate “Mayan sabiduria ( savoir )” and “ ser Mayab...

..., and narrativize embodied social-cultural experience—which is the bread and butter, or ends, of the enterprise of anthropology. Here, our orientation turns toward the “discipline” or project Marlon Riggs called “anthropology . . . the unending search for what is utterly precious.” Black gay lesbian Long...