Anthropology

Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to interpret...

Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. No other species creates such a variety of dwellings. Drawing examples from across the ar...

Why are humans so different from each other and what makes the human species so different from all other living organisms? This introductory book p...

Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the ...

Pakistani society has created and reinforced many myths to explain why the phenomenon of prostitution has nothing to do with 'nice people'. These m...

Originally written in 1921 for the authors grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loons The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, si...

As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrializ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The shipping container is all around: ...

This book examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport migrants - those professionals working in the sports industry w...

There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughou...

This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital...

The Energy Reader presents a series of readings that examine the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and look at energy holistically...

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on ...

Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and the way in which anthropology has been passed from one generation to the next. There...

Building Bridges brings together ten papersnine of which were presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society (SAS) in Sava...

Situated within the area stretching from Georgian Bay in the north to Lake Simcoe in the east, the Wendat Confederacy flourished for two hundred ye...

In the top corner of the window a pale, milky-white wisp is rising almost to the top of our ten-foot ceiling. I am startled but not afraid. Mostly,...