Anthropology

The Transformation of Urban Liberalism re-evaluates the dramatic and turbulent political decade following the 'Third Reform Act', and questions whe...

Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological AssociationThis book offers a...

This title was first published in 2001: Examining the future of the welfare state in four globalizing economies - Sweden, UK, Japan and US - this b...

Debt is one of the great subjects of our day, and understanding the way that it not only fuels economic growth, but can also be used as a means of ...

This book provides a historical summary of agricultural development and representative ways in which agricultural production is undertaken in diffe...

This book originated in a conference on Culture and Reproduction held at the University of California. It discusses conceptual changes in demograph...

Through an anthropological study of a highly influential movement of French 'alterglobalization' activists, this book offers an ethnographic window...

Knowledge externalities - i.e. intellectual gains made by exchange of information for which no direct compensation is given to the producer of the ...

This book looks at the migration and work experiences of six women who have migrated to Australia from China; Zimbabwe; South Korea; the United Kin...

This book sets out some of the latest scientific findings around the evolutionary development of religion and faith and then explores their theolog...

This book explores how Irelands community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centu...

How are notions of home made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rat...

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

This book documents the experiences of anthropologists with development in West Africa during the past decade. It presents case study material to b...

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via t...

This title was first published in 2000: This book provides an empirical account of social control and deviance in a South Asian community in Scotla...

Through fascinating vignettes and case studies, this unique text illustrates how Yucatecan migrants actively maintain social ties across borders. ...

For upper-level and/or graduate level Primatology or Biological Anthropology courses.Socioecology of Adult Female Patas Monkeys and Vervet in Kenya...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

The Arab protest movements of 2010-2011 gave momentum and inspiration to unprecedented political mobilisations of migrants of Arab origin, whether ...

During its expansion from the Amazon jungle to Western societies, ayahuasca use has encountered different legal and cultural responses. Following o...

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concept...

Women are the worlds most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distor...

Published in 1937. This book, written by the well-known authority on the ethnology and archaeology of the Malay Peninsula, presents a compact and d...