Anthropology

With considerable analytical rigor and clarity in exposition, Chew uncovers the intriguing networks, connectivity, and interactions between Southea...

'Daring, learned and humane ... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the ...

Society is in a state of chaos, causing great suffering for people all over the world. Yet almost all life stresses are human-made. Our species is ...

For over four hundred years, thousands of African men and women were taken from their homeland and transported across the world to be sold into sla...

In its most general sense, the term Spiritual but Not Religious denotes those who, on the one hand, are disillusioned with traditional institutiona...

This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, t...

Since Mexico-U.S. migration represents the largest sustained migratory flow between two nations worldwide, much of the theoretical and empirical wo...

Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment   In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examine...

Provides comprehensive coverage of everything that students and practitioners need to know about working in the field of forensic anthropology Fore...

For more than thirty years, there has not been a project that consolidates international university-level scholarship on Sindh and Sindhis into a s...

Clifford Geertz has been called the most original anthropologist of his generation and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to ...

This book explores the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It investigate...

This volume explores the extent to which forced migration has become a defining feature of life in the Middle East and North Africa. The papers pre...

Museum Studies - as an academic and practical field of research that is rapidly expanding and alive with potential - presents an opportunity and ch...

How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages di...