Anthropology

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the ...

Focusing on the conflict and coordination between social development and political order in social governance, this book investigates the causes, e...

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have wi...

This book explores young Cambodians perceptions of their place in todays society and how they interact with the countrys arts and culture scene. Th...

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and w...

Brute. Cockroach. Lice. Vermin. People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish...

This book outlines the role of Sufism in Moroccan politics in the twenty-first century through a comparative study of contemporary Sufi organizatio...

Dagestan History, Culture, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russi...

This timely book offers a critically important contribution to debates around the meeting place of religious and secular worldviews in education. E...

This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It examines ho...

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. In Truffles and Trash, Kelly Alexander reveals i...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships be...

Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the...

Silence is crucial to our social world. Responding to the growing scholarly interest in social sciences and humanities for more in-depth engagement...

This transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative edited volume contains seven original, research-led chapters that explore complex intersections...

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars w...

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community. Though a fundamental issue in contemporary societies, ...

First published in 1930, this book sought to explain to western readers the vital necessity of approaching the Indian problem from the emerging nat...

Research has shown that feminist theory has flowed far more easily from North to South and from West to East, wheras travel in other directions has...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experi...

This book investigates the role of Islam and religious freedom in the constitutional transitions of six North African and Middle Eastern countries,...

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington...

What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow...

Notions of social change are often divided into local versus international. But what actually happens at the national levelwhere policies are ultim...

The rise of the health, beauty and fitness industries in recent years has led to an increased focus on the body. Body image, gender and health are ...

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and c...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...