Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, ...

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture ...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shi...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods....

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportat...

Learning in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Education in the Twenty-First Century reimagines the education of future generations in our complex socie...

In Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization, two distinguished anthropologists look at how global processes have shaped the emer...

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the natio...

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of e...

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Floridas Gold Coast as a way of ex...