Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciou...

Eminent anthropologist Keith Hart draws on the humanities, popular culture and his own experiences to help readers explore their own place in his...

*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Elle and GQ*'SPELLBINDING' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art w...

Intercultural and cross-cultural mediation in the Western world has emerged as an object of research that has attracted a growing attention over th...

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries...

The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over th...

What can we learn from children traversing the liminal and transient time-space of migration? How do migrant children and their caretakers navigate...

Fasziniert vom Zauber der Volksmärchen aus den italienischen Regionen, will die vorliegende Arbeit dazu beitragen, die vorsprachlichen und sprachli...

Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acqui...

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to wi...

With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination...

Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging so...

Opera is able to offer enchanting performance sites, in which people create and experience glamorous or ecstatic imagined worlds, but behind this p...

Il faut passer par le XIXème siècle pour découvrir selon le mot de Louis Althusser un Continent-Histoire. Ceux qui traversent les Alpes et l’Italie...

Sustainable management is an important consideration for businesses and organisations, and the enormous number of tourism events taking place requi...

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements res...