Anthropology

In the early 1990s, queer anthropology represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but ...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies an...

In the early 1990s, queer anthropology represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but ...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies an...

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...