In this alternative guide to Magick for Pagan city folk, the authors include practical recommendations not found anywhere else in a tone that is humorous and irreverent but full of serious information.

"An anthropological inquiry into ... the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decorations practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarification"--Back cover.

This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive. The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of architecture's origins. Since the almost legendary 1970s conference on the Primitive, with the advent of post-modernism and, in particular, post-colonialism, the word has fallen from favour in many disciplines. Despite this, architects continue to use the word to mythologize and reify the practice of simplicity. Primitive includes contributions from some of today’s leading architectural commentators including Dalibor Vesely, Adrian Forty, David Leatherbarrow, Richard Weston and Richard Coyne. Structured around five sections, Negotiating Origins; Urban Myths; Questioning Colonial Constructs; Making Marks; and Primitive Futures, the essays highlight the problematic nature of ideas of the primitive, engage with contemporary debate in the field of post colonialism and respond to a burgeoning interest in the non-expert architecture. This now controversial subject remains, for better or worse, intrinsic to the very structure of Modernism and deeply embedded in architectural theory. Considering a broad range of approaches, this book provides a rounded past, present and future of the word primitive in the architectural sphere.

The newly released, Urban + Primitive, The Art of Lyle Carbajal, is more than an impressivecollection; it's the exploration of the arts, perceptions, travels, and influences that have shaped theBrut Artist's life and great body of work. Lyle Carbajal-who's exhibited internationally-has explored the culture, people, and art of Seattle, the Bay area, Los Angeles, theSouthern United States, and all the way down to Mexico City and Buenos Aires. Heavily influencedby Outsider, Primitive, and Street Art, Carbajal says, "Everywhere I've lived, these are allmy people."The intricate connections to that statement are found throughout the pages in Urban + Primitive;beginning with the chapters, Artist Statement and Early Work, he adeptly takes you through theAnimals, the Sacred, the Regional People, then into Totems, Illustration, and then finally into thePlates. Interlaced with his exposition, you'll find an extensive collection of old and new works thatwill magnetize the viewer.He says, "The phrase, 'Urban + Primitive' captures, if somewhat roughly, the thoughts, lessons,and perceptions of how I view the world; I essentially divide the influence of these terms on mywork." He dives deep into these themes. After completing his recent sojourn of the US with hissix month immersion through Argentina, he was thinking of the book as the "chronicle [of] alifetime of creativity, ideas, and experiences..." But it's so much more than this. Lyle Carbajalpushes the envelope through each chapter, enriching the pages with history, extensive knowledge,his art, his observations, and his questions. Be prepared to be challenged to go deeper, and tothink outside the box. You'll want to, whether you're an artist or not.

Inequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a city in the wake of globalization--but is globalization really the cause? Proposing a new perspective on politics, globalization, and the city, this provocative book argues that such urban problems result in part from U.S. policies that can be changed. William Sites develops the concept of primitive globalization, identifying a pattern of reactive politics--ad hoc measures to subsidize business, displace the urban poor, and dismantle the welfare state--that uproots social actors (corporations, citizens, urban residents) and facilitates a damaging, short-term-oriented type of international integration. In light of this theory, Sites examines the transformation of New York City since the 1970s, focusing on the logic of political action at national, local, and neighborhood levels. In the process, the story of late twentieth-century New York and its Lower East Side community emerges as something different: not a tale of globalist transformation or of local resurgence but a distinctly American case, one in which urban politics and the state, in their own right, exacerbate inequality and community fragmentation within the city.