Anthropology

Following in the footsteps of Frazer, Freud, and Burke, René Girard proposes a novel hermeneutic theory of the of scapegoating which not only gives...

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation. This s...

If you feel like the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, youre not alone. If you often feel theres nothing you can do about it, youre also not ...

How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 millio...

This book explores the critical role of informal diplomats in shaping contemporary global politics as they navigate complex networks of power and i...

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French liter...

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, and priests. The ritual off...

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arre...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory...

This book examines the greening of civil codes from a comparative perspective. It takes into account the increasing requirements of supranational r...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined an...

This book continues the themes addressed by its two predecessors in this mini-series by examining the role of the principle of the welfare interest...

This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change ac...

Extracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure c...

This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesth...

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (d...

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the l...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, b...

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of the...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community devel...

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolfs celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the...

First published in 1951, Man into Wolf attempts to suggest the possibility of historical, or rather prehistorical, evolutionist derivation of all c...

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenlands society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenlands resources ...

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...