Anthropology

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a...

Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condi...

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a...

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, id...

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, id...

Following decades of brutal campaigns against left forces, fascism in its nationalist and religious forms has been dominating Turkish, Iranian, and...

A view into the diverse culture of the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries   Although Manila, capital city of the Philippines, ...

A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects...

South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current p...

The Fear of Erring, a combination of thick ethnography and an ethnopoetic storyline, illustrates how mistrust, ignorance, and imagination govern th...

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case...

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives...

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives...

The idea that an external force can enter an individual and possess their body is prevalent in most cultures across the globe and throughout histor...

A translocal ethnography about Tajik migrants engagement in projects of reform Islamic life in Dubai, the book maps Gulf migration onto larger geog...

In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

Hartmut Böhmes study of fetishism spans all the way from Christian image magic in the Middle Ages to fetishistic practices in fashion, advertising,...

This book is a Gedenkschrift in memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an acc...

Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz ent...

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the south...

The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel throu...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

The study of material culture has helped create a common meeting ground for scholars seeking to integrate images, sites, texts and implements in th...

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider s...

The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although Britis...

Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer In the past two decades, medical missions have gaine...