Anthropology

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...

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...