Anthropology

This is an outstanding collection of articles, all based on original research, giving the volume a fresh feel. Eugenia Georges, Rice University

Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the...

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and cru...

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian strug...

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book e...

In Tongues of Fire, Nancy Farriss investigates the role of language and translation in the creation of Mexican Christianity during the first centur...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, const...

This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of individual differences within the domain of personality, with major sub-topics including ass...

The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an ...

Museums are public institutions with various sets of obligations to, and legacies of, individuals and communities. This volume considers theoretica...

Wade Davis has been called ''a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life''s diversity''. In Shadows in t...

Winner of the 2015 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology After Haitis 2010 ear...

The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject ...

Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture....

Considered the definitive book on dream catchers, this book is for all readers that want to learn about these important symbols in Native American ...

The past two decades have seen an explosion of research on Postclassic Mesoamerican societies. In this ambitious new volume, the editors and contri...

Valley of Opportunity recreates an age when Indians, colonists, and post-Revolutionary settlers embraced a similar dream: to create a successful ec...

This thoroughly updated third edition provides students with an accessible overview of Vygotskys work, combining reprints of key journal and text a...

Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to virtua...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsi...

An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly compara...