Anthropology

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...

Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression a force to be kept in check....

The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lees seminal 2001...

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fa...

This collection of essays in the honor of David Brokensha focuses on issues which had concerned him throughout his professional career as an anthro...

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

This book examines ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union to indicate how turbulent the world has become in the post-Cold War era-and how diff...

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers. Their research and writing focused on the folklore of British children their games, rhymes, r...

Taking up the challenge of understanding power in its complexity, this volume returns to and revitalises the concept of authority. It provides a po...

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

This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.Given the...

Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics...

While the spatial turn within the social sciences has already nurtured a broad discussion of the relation between society and space, little attenti...