Anthropology

This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship--friends...

The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practised Mahayana Buddh...

This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of E...

A radically new reading of the origins of recorded musicNoise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the d...

Race and racism are significant factors posing formidable challenges for racialised individuals and groups across North America. For social workers...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was b...

Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation-and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consult...

Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions ...

Rituals promote the ability to attribute meaning to our lives because rituals are profound structures that define the continuity of experience betw...

Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork resumes in anthropolo...

African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to raciali...

During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders, and that her child bo...

Baseball has been Japan''s most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically...