Anthropology

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

Hartmut Böhmes study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising,...

This book is a Gedenkschrift in memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an acc...

Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz ent...

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the south...

The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel throu...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

The study of material culture has helped create a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in th...

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider s...

The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although Britis...

Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer In the past two decades, medical missions have gaine...

Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the p...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

The longest-lived stereotype of Jews with the broadest appeal is the idea that Jews are money-driven. From the fictional moneylender Shylock demand...

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider s...