Anthropology

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...

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...