Anthropology

This title was first published in 2002. Drawing on primary research on the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, a millenarian New Religious M...

In The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace, Dr Jemielniak has collected research-based chapters providing deep, interdisciplinary insight into knowledg...

Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...

Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...

First published in 1934, the majority of this book was developed just prior to the Nazi seizure of power, with additional material which reflects o...

This title was first published in 2000. An essential collection of studies which examine the many aspects of the Indian economy from trade relation...

This title was first published in 2003. A fascinating insight into the economic, social and political processes that shaped the lives of white work...

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...

Legal pluralism and the experience of the state in the Caucasus are at the centre of this edited volume. This is a region affected by a multitude o...

Learn how you can help combat micro and macroaggressions against socially devalued groups with this authoritative new resource  Microintervention S...

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionall...

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease.The volume begins by exploring current m...

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion center...

Rituals of Manhood provides some of the most dramatic and richly textured accounts of ritual passages known to anthropologists of the late twentiet...

Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editors space in higher education over the past thre...

This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers...

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment....

This book addresses the art historical category of contemporary art from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focu...

In this sweeping chronicle of guaranaa glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ran...

First Published in 2000. This Volume III of three of a series on Africa. Written in 1881, using the evidence of history and language, this text lo...

This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the d...

This title was first published in 2003. Can a text be used either to validate or to invalidate contemporary understandings? Texts may be deemed 'sa...

This title was first published in 2001. Exploring issues of diversity and cross-cultural interaction and understanding, Maya Identities and the Vio...