Political parties in Europe face a crisis of legitimacy, which manifests itself through a decline in partisan identification, an increase in electoral ...
This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective-that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a l ...
This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since ...
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses ...
This book is the archaeologists' response to Merlin Donald's 1991 book, "Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cogn ...
How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? Confronted with religious practices, anthropologists have typically been content with soc ...
"[I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a ...
Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple--to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade ...
Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Steph ...
Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected are ...
The relationship between human beings and their gods lies at the centre of all questions of identity, individual and collective. Nadia Lovell examines ...
Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the fiel ...
A leading name in anthropology, Conrad Philip Kottak continues to define student learning in the cultural anthropology course. Cultural Anthropology o ...
John Whiting is a leading figure in psychological anthropology and a pioneer in the development of systematic cross-cultural research. His work is int ...
Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousand ...
Confronts major questions facing anthropology, Marxist theory, cultural studies, feminism, and history.
Referring to a past that never was, dГ©jГ vu shares a structure not only with fiction, but also with the ever more sophisticated effects of media tec ...
The objective of the volume is to bring together, in one collection, the most innovative dental anthropological research as it pertains to the study o ...
