Anthropology

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulentstruggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seenas opaq...

Outside Japan, the term manga usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled manga are not transla...

Based on recent archaeological surveys and excavations, the chapters in this volume provide current, comprehensive, area-by-area summaries of the r...

The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the gr...

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

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

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the mi...

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental...

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary...

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Intro...

A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Dr...

In recent years announcements of the birth of business anthropology have ricocheted around the globe. The first major reference work on this field,...

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

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

The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at the storm center o...

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity. Contribu...

First published in 1987. During the last half of the nineteenth century, nearly two million Norwegians and Swedes migrated to the United States. De...

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological...

Frontiers are wild. The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these...

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and sh...

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural co...

State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns explores the policies of the successive Syrian governments towards the Arab tri...

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data. T...

What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive ...

An Archaeology of Ancash is a wellillustrated synthesis of the archaeology of North Central Peru, and specifically the stone structures of the Anca...

Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, ...

While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of ...

Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick...

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

In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not ...

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview ...

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically refer...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research...

As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out ...

Cinema: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates, and texts of the most important approaches to the stu...