Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments uni...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

This Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a rea...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descript...

Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this volume brings together diverse voices, meth...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world ...

A profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices In this voyage through th...

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, ...

The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, ...

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, ...

The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, ...

This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global in...

Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into Latin Americas largest social movement as i...