Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin c ...
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christ ...
Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which me ...
Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibit ...
Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on seve ...
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthrop ...
First published in 1986, Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in the field. In this newly revised and updated edition, the valu ...
Written by an experienced teacher, this basic introduction to the anthropology of religion explores key contemporary issues such as: definitions, theo ...
Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradit ...
Islam Obscured analyzes four seminal anthropology texts on Muslims that have been read widely outside the discipline. Two are by distinguished anthrop ...
Islam vs. Islamism introduces the Islamic world's diversity, conflicts, and dilemmas—its origins, extraordinary creativity, and current crisis, the re ...
Muslims currently struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws (including those derived from Islam, as well as contemporary ...
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion!The roots of contemporary Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia lie ...
This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conformin ...
This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, ...
Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of ...
