Anthropology

Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role whic...

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Tw...

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Tw...

There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly...

Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of...

Aulino's work is a strong contribution to the study of aging in the field of medical anthropology specifically because of the focus on the embodied...

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people''s reluctance to pursue rel...

[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration....[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less pri...

Culture has become one of the most important constructs in contemporary psychology, yet when behavioural and social scientists attempt to research ...

In northwest Namibia, people''''s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropologi...

This volume contains translationsmany appearing for the first time in the English languageof major literary, critical, and historical essays from t...

This book argues that the two most influential theories on modern human behavior, cultural determinism and evolutionary psychology, are quite inade...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from c...

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her c...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, a fascinating look at the world of Christ...

The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her...

Battling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the controversial plans and practices of the Maitreya Project, a trans...