Anthropology

Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual cons...

Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of indep...

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the coloniality of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino schol...

Translating Across Cultures is a collection of nine papers given at the 21st BAS/British and American Studies conference, held in Timioara in May 2...

In this book, Marcio Goldman provides an interpretation of a 'big' theme - the functioning of a modern political system - based on the ethnographic...

Based on an ethnographic study, this book explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Cert...

Ethnographic museums have been fundamentally reshaped during recent decades, acknowledging contemporary cultural practices, recognising aesthetic e...

For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work...