Mark R. Anspach is an American anthropologist and social theorist whose writings have appeared in nine languages. He is affiliated with the LIAS research team at the Institut Marcel Mauss, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

“Mark Anspach’s Vengeance in Reverse is a brilliant integration of great themes in anthropology: reciprocity, revenge, war, sacrifice, the birth of the gods, and the anti-communal tragedy of madness. It will take its place among the works that have helped us understand both the bright and dark sides of human nature and culture.”—Melvin Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Emory University, and author of The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

• Contents Preface Part 1. Changing Reciprocities Chapter 1. Beginning with the Return, or Vengeance in Reverse Chapter 2. Violence Deceived Chapter 3. Trying to Stop the Trojan War Part 2. Self-Transcendence Chapter 4. Return to the Beginning, or the Making of a Metagod Chapter 5. Madness in the Making Chapter 6. No Exit? Madness and the Divided Self Notes Bibliography Index

Mark R. Anspach is an American anthropologist and social theorist whose writings have appeared in nine languages. He is affiliated with the LIAS research team at the Institut Marcel Mauss, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

“Mark Anspach’s Vengeance in Reverse is a brilliant integration of great themes in anthropology: reciprocity, revenge, war, sacrifice, the birth of the gods, and the anti-communal tragedy of madness. It will take its place among the works that have helped us understand both the bright and dark sides of human nature and culture.”—Melvin Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Emory University, and author of The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

• Contents Preface Part 1. Changing Reciprocities Chapter 1. Beginning with the Return, or Vengeance in Reverse Chapter 2. Violence Deceived Chapter 3. Trying to Stop the Trojan War Part 2. Self-Transcendence Chapter 4. Return to the Beginning, or the Making of a Metagod Chapter 5. Madness in the Making Chapter 6. No Exit? Madness and the Divided Self Notes Bibliography Index

Mark R. Anspach is an American anthropologist and social theorist whose writings have appeared in nine languages. He is affiliated with the LIAS research team at the Institut Marcel Mauss, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

“Mark Anspach’s Vengeance in Reverse is a brilliant integration of great themes in anthropology: reciprocity, revenge, war, sacrifice, the birth of the gods, and the anti-communal tragedy of madness. It will take its place among the works that have helped us understand both the bright and dark sides of human nature and culture.”—Melvin Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Emory University, and author of The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit

• Contents Preface Part 1. Changing Reciprocities Chapter 1. Beginning with the Return, or Vengeance in Reverse Chapter 2. Violence Deceived Chapter 3. Trying to Stop the Trojan War Part 2. Self-Transcendence Chapter 4. Return to the Beginning, or the Making of a Metagod Chapter 5. Madness in the Making Chapter 6. No Exit? Madness and the Divided Self Notes Bibliography Index