Anthropology

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

Sensing the World: An Anthropology of the Senses is a highly original and comprehensive overview of the anthropology and sociology of the body and ...

Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practi...

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource ex...

Sentient Conceptualisations is about how scientists studying the past understand time in relation to space. Simonetti argues that the feelings for ...

As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the su...

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and livesSet in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed Shangri-La by the Chinese government for tourism promo...

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and livesSet in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed Shangri-La by the Chinese government for tourism promo...

Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Ameri...

An ethnography of silver backpackers that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societies The moniker silve...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in...

In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to off...

Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on televisio...