Anthropology

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the l...

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theater and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the on...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This handbook presents an overview of the main approaches from social and cultural anthropology to the Hebrew Bible. Since the late 19th century, b...

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of the...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community devel...

Fifty years after the publication of Eric Wolfs celebrated Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, and forty years after the publication of his path...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the...

First published in 1951, Man into Wolf attempts to suggest the possibility of historical, or rather prehistorical, evolutionist derivation of all c...

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenlands society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenlands resources ...

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious ...

Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumars 2013 seminal work Soil, Soul and Society, this book rethinks education in line with thou...

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-lengt...

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between...

This book examines the everyday judicial experience in four multicultural jurisdictions as a means of exploring the relationship between legal syst...

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people o...

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool. In its inception, public theology was largely contextualized as the public church. However, this ...

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel? These twin questions are posed and a...