Anthropology

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of...

The author of this work presents an informative description of the surrounding tribes together with a collection of Temne, Bulom and Susu vocabular...

China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents,...

China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents,...

The articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BA...

Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers t...

Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people...

Exploring Cross-Cultural Psychology: Exercises for Instructors and Students is an accessible text that provides material for generating interactive...

Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealiz...

This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number o...

Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration r...

Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this b...

In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken our wonder, and upturned our ideas about ...

Migrant networks, in the form of families, associational ties and social organizations, stretch across the globe, connecting cultures and bridging ...

In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed. Not the least the many normative ideas of sport as good o...

Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'res...

While visiting New Mexico, the author was struck with the opportunity the state presents to explore the school-community relationship in rural, rel...

Prototypes have acquired much prominence and visibility in recent times. Software development is perhaps the case in point, where the release of no...

In this fascinating study of Northwest Coast art, Jonathan Meuli has not only outlined a history of ideas associated with Northwest Coast art objec...

Traditionally the self and the individual have been treated as micro-versions of larger social entities by the social sciences in general, and by a...

Homemaking studies have consistently demonstrated a lack of attention to different meanings of practices within immigrant groups, creating a biased...

This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the bo...

From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the ’other world’ - to the rep...

Antagonistic Tolerance examines patterns of coexistence and conflict amongst members of different religious communities, using multidisciplinary r...