Anthropology

Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and main...

From foraging patterns in a single tree to social interactions across a home range, how primates use space is a key question in the field of primat...

From foraging patterns in a single tree to social interactions across a home range, how primates use space is a key question in the field of primat...

The neurological condition synaesthesia (the mixing of the senses) has for over a century provoked thought about new ways of artistic seeing. In ...

This impressive volume stands as a powerful corrective to latent ethnocentric tendencies lying at the heart of much contemporary scholarship on the...

In Algonquian folklore, the wetiko is a cannibal monster or spirit that possesses a person, rendering them monstrous. In The Wetiko Legal Principle...

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? No...

In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate th...

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

Furry and wide-eyed, lorises and pottos are small, nocturnal primates inhabiting African, Asian and Southeast Asian tropical and subtropical forest...

Written by a wide range of highly regarded scholars and exciting junior ones, this book critiques and operationalizes contemporary thinking in the ...

Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how t...

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social wor...

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed. This challenges the anthropologist...

Mental Epidemics: From Mobbing to Terrorism Handbook focuses on a new research area: mental medicine as a psychiatric paradigm of integrative medic...