Anthropology

A History of Mobility in New Mexico uses the often-enigmatic chipped stone assemblages of the Taos Plateau to chart patterns of historical mobility...

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of distortion - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and t...

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immorta...

We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to li...

This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performan...

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range o...

Passing is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to pass away or pass on. This open-ended saying has at its heart a no...

From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beau...

From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beau...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt language, material culture, patterns of be...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its inst...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This volume brings together recent research findings on sign language and primatology and offers a novel approach to comparative language acquisiti...

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to...

Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to b...

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary...

Transnational Perspecives on Feminism and Art, 19601985 is a collection of essential essays that bring transnational feminist praxis into conversat...

Critics of the ecosystem concept have noted the tendency of ecosystem-based studies to overemphasize energy flow, to rely on functionalist assumpti...

For many centuries Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world: right up to the Second World War the area was home to over 40 per ce...

This book is about people who have been forced resettle because of development projects. It takes stock of recent applied social science research o...

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexi...

Business Anthropology: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues in the field. It introduces readers t...

Most anthropologists agree that a comprehension of adaptation and adaptive processes is central to an understanding of human biological and behavio...

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th...

Narrating the realities of teacher burnout, the reception of a Black intelligentsia, and HIV awareness in local communities, Black Americans in Hig...

Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their visio...

This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA...

Bringing together ten research based contributions, Muslims, Migration and Citizenship addresses questions about the changing experiences of Muslim...

Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of security blurs to analyse manifesta...

This title was first published in 2000: Up-to-date information on socio-economic issues in contemporary Swaziland is not always readily accessible....

In this highly original study, Vanessa Russ examines the gradual invention of Aboriginal art within the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This proces...

Senses and Sensation: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings essential to anyone wishing to gain a critical...

This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled Thirty Years of Talk. For 30 years, Okano ...

This volume addresses the exercise of personal autonomy in contemporary situations of normative pluralism. In the Western liberal tradition, from a...

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approache...

Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophic...