Anthropology

Anthropology is more relevant than ever before to making sense of the constant intercultural encounters taking place around the world. Even though ...

Anthropologists are affected by and affect others through emotional engagement; they manage emotions or allow them to unfold as vehicles of underst...

Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strausss writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation...

Anthropology continues to develop both in terms of theory and in relation to the ways in which fieldwork is conducted. Dislocating Anthropology? se...

In this bold, provocative account, the author argues that the phenomena of life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. Living matter occ...

Les representations nationales, les identites artistiques et les echanges culturels internationaux sont au coeur de ce livre. A l''occasion de chac...

Ce livre presente les trois dernieres sessions du projet de l''Institut international des Hautes etudes de Kyoto (IIAS) Reception et creativite -...

Cet ouvrage se propose d''explorer de facon critique le concept de culture, au sens anthropologique, au travers de ses differents impacts dans la v...

Quelles sont les references identitaires invoquees aujourd''hui par des porteurs de projet dans les Alpes ? Cet ouvrage montre dans quelle mesure c...

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptual...

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...

A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and ...

Primatology draws on theory and methods from diverse fields, including anatomy, anthropology, biology, ecology, medicine, psychology, veterinary sc...

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

On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian scientific soup kitc...