Gísli Pálsson

Anthropologists argue that scientific advances, particularly the growth of "new genetics", have had far-reaching social, cultural and ethical implications, changing ...

Brian Morris

Focusing on more recent classical ethnographies, this important study provides a critical introduction to the social anthropology of religion. It covers ...

Negotiating the Animal-Human Boundary

Raymond H. A. Corbey

The Metaphysics of Apes traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and the ape-like earliest ancestors of ...

Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

Robert N. McCauley, E. Thomas Lawson

Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ...

Myth, Imagination and Conjecture

Wiktor Stoczkowski, Translated by Mary Turton

A palaeo-anthropologist argues that theories of human origins developed by archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to ...

Ways of Seeing in Anthropology

Anna Grimshaw

Grimshaw sets a new agenda for visual anthropology, attempting to transcend the old division between image and text-based ethnography. She ...

Alan Barnard

Alan Barnard has written a clear but detailed overview of anthropological theory that brings out the historical contexts of the ...