Anthropology

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

What makes Classics global, and what does it mean to study the ancient world globally? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understandi...

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past provides students with a thorough understanding of what archaeology is and how it operates and familiari...

On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate cr...

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the ...

[Gangs in Americas Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . .  . I highly recommend its adoption as ...

This practical book shows practicing social scientists and graduate students how to account for cultural factors when developing and evaluating psy...

A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience. Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Wor...

For more than 200 years, archaeological sites in the Middle East have been dug, sifted, sorted, and saved by local community members who, in turn, ...

The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in art and anthropological exhibitions through the analysis of a series of c...

Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are arguably the two best-known archaeological areas in the American Southwest. Yet despite more than a century of arch...

Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are arguably the two best-known archaeological areas in the American Southwest. Yet despite more than a century of arch...

Fire and Salt traces the history of how human activities have helped build the littoral landscape of Pacific coastal southern Mesoamerica over the ...

Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain mere...

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and rel...

Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some of the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from con...

Our Traumatized Planet explores the state of the environment and some of the major issues faced today and asks what we can learn and apply from con...

Creativity and Sociology: Doing Social Research with and on Artistic Sources explores the relationship between artistic and sociological narratives...

Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by stud...

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key hist...

Violence is at the heart of the sacrifice, despite its denial in the texts. For the participants and observers, it materialises in the exposure of ...