Anthropology

Drawing inspiration from Standing Bears legacy, Amiotte uses ephemera, historical and modern photographs and artworks, and the remembered stories o...

Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, an...

We like to think that science always illuminates. But the disturbing persistence of the concept of biological determinism-the false idea that human...

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages shows the transition from an internal ...

Phillip Hofstetter first visited Yucatan in 1987 and was entranced, as much by the sheer physical beauty of the region as by the enduring character...

Eccentric artists are the vagaries of humanity that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by preWorld Wa...

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued in...

Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of nationhood and the nation in the epistemologies ...

Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of nationhood and the nation in the epistemologies ...

The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has giv...

How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadi...

This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former soviet countries. T...

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can b...

Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized ...