Anthropology

This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the diff...

J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of ...

What is modernity? Do we all experience modernity in the same way? How should we understand contemporary social change? This volume explores questi...

This text offers an international and comparative analysis of social division rooted in race, ethnicity and national identity. It provides an overv...

Migration for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This volume examine...

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is an exceptionally clear and readable introduction that helps students understand the applicatio...

Mizoram is situated at a unique cusp in North East India, in terms of both physical and social contexts. It shares its borders with Myanmar and Ban...

Migration among the Bassari people of eastern Senegal has produced an apparent paradox: villages are experiencing rapid and profound change as they...

The world is in an era of great transformations. Globalization, transnational capitalism, September 11, the 2008 global financial crises, and the e...

Interviews with Mexican Women: We Dont Talk About Feminism Here presents a series of conversations with Mexican women representing a wide geographi...

Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation...

Due to globalization processes, foreign language skills, knowledge about other countries and intercultural competences have increasingly become imp...

Rapa Nui, one of the worlds most isolated island societies and home to the notable moai, has been at the centre of a tense debate for the past deca...

If you had just one wish for the study of human development, what would it be? How would it advance the field? And what would it take for your visi...

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgen...

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation...

This book is an introduction to library research in anthropology written primarily for the undergraduate student about to begin a research project....

This book describes the social history of the events surrounding the construction of the Bayano Dam and its aftermath in Eastern Panama. It clarifi...

Jews of Turkey: Migration, Culture and Memory explores the culture of Jews who immigrated from East Turkey to Israel. The study reveals the cultura...

This book examines the causes of declining fertility in a major Southeast Asian nation, the Philippines. It describes issues pertaining to the sign...

Taking a comparative approach which considers characters that are shared across the narrative traditions of early Indian religions (Brahmanical Hin...

This text can be used for any undergraduate or graduate course with a primate behavior or primate ecology component. It can also be used as supplem...

Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth, which has too often been reduced to merely accumulated assets, this book views wealth primarily as a ques...

This book applies Thorstein Veblens cultural theory to a qualitative study of the charro cowboy culture and community in Mexico. Drawing on Veblens...