Anthropology

Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. Its a pedestrians world, where the streets are clean, the e...

Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues...

Combining biomedical, psychological, and anthropological approaches to intergenerational incestuous violence experienced by rural indigenous [and] ...

Drawing together many stories from the archives of difficult events and volatile histories, Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories a...

Archaeological Theory in Dialogue presents an innovative conversation between five scholars from different backgrounds on a range of central issues...

The bulk of the literature on Basava and Lingayatism incorporates both the Brahman and Bhakti movements. To do this is to lose sight of innovations...

Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal explores the historical, religious, cultural and economic contexts of Islam in Senegal through the narrative first-h...

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focussed on the organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).The emphas...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

Mafia-type organizations generate several distorting effects on the economy. In Italy their presence is endemic, and not only in Southern regions s...

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe an...

This ethnography of Nadur Village explores the ramifications of Kerala State's policy of wealth redistribution to achieve equality. The author show...

Practicing Art and Anthropology presents an in-depth exploration of transdisciplinary work in the expanding space between art and anthropology. Hav...

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing...

Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about t...

Unprecedented advances in genetics and biotechnology have brought profound new insights into human biological variation. These present challenges a...

As a field of research, settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years. This volume contributes a set of much-needed empirical ...

Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous ontological turn, a (re...

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

In many contemporary and popular forms of religious practice, digital technology and the spiritual are inseparable. Ranging from streaming broadcas...

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term Afropolitan within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable t...

Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, an...

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

Key Features:Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international lea...