Anthropology

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at glocal languages, local langua...

This book analyses how religion is entangled in peoples lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings...

For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ...

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract f...

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the wo...

Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters-the...

The primitive mind does not differentiate the supernatural from reality, but rather uses mystical participation to manipulate the world. According ...

Artists, designers and researchers are increasingly seeking new ways to understand and explore the creative and practical significance of the sense...

Customary law and traditional authorities continue to play highly complex and contested roles in contemporary African states. Reversing the common ...

Introduction to Forensic Anthropology provides comprehensive coverage of key methods and issues in forensic anthropology. Using terminology and bes...

This book reviews the history of micro/macro issues in anthropology and provides a framework for a more systematic examination of potential linkage...

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over 20years of engagement with Rwanda and its dia...

Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite proper knowledge its too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries...

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the long eighteenth centur...

This book provides a robust gendered analysis and establishes a feminist approach to international actors responses to sexual violence crimes in co...

Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gells ...

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the con...

This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New Yorkhome of the Ba...

The Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through ...

With Wayne Bennett From the silky wax qualities of the surfaces of some quartz menhirs to the wood-grain textures of others, to the golden honeycom...

Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity ...

This book presents some arguments for why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful for understanding the connected polit...

This book examines current archaeological approaches for studying the organizational structure of prehistoric societies in the American Southwest. ...

We spend a lot of time thinking about other people: their motivations, what they are thinking, why they want particular things. Sometimes we are aw...