Anthropology

the urban West, it is easy to forget that most of the world's population still lives in villages, and despite increasing globalization it remains t...

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relatio...

From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and ...

This book shows how the performance of rituals influences the understanding that Hindu women form of their own selves, their sense of femininity, i...

Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the dis...

Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case stu...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade. Holding that a womans substantive due process right to terminate her pre...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the critical picture of gender and violence in the age of globalization by introducing a variet...

Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editors space in higher education over the past thre...

In the era of health democracy, where a patients right to be informed is not only widely advocated but also guaranteed by law, what is the real sit...

This title was first published in 2000: This volume offers international comparative perspectives and critical analyses of the interconnections bet...

This is an introduction to human prehistory written for complete beginners with a global perspective. It is written in a jargon-free style that cov...

Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system, leading to the periodical suppression of s...

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the...

Artifacts are hybrids, both natural and cultural. They are also an essential component in the process of human evolution. In recent years, a wide r...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

First published in 2005. The first part of this book is an historical study of the Hebrew written production on women's healthcare and of Jewish wo...

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

This title was first published in 2000: Complex Life argues for the importance of the new perspective of non modern social theory in understanding ...

This book probes features of internal migration in Sri Lanka and some of the social and political consequences of these population shifts. It exami...