Democracy and Violence in South Asia

Jonathan Spencer

This book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, ...

William G. Axinn, Lisa D. Pearce

Social scientists have long relied on a wide range of tools to collect information about the social world, but as ...

Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan

Robert P. Weller

A description of the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the ...

Relatives are Always a Surprise

Marilyn Strathern

Anthropologists use relations to study relations. This book explores the power, challenge and limitations of this approach to social life. ...

James A. Trostle

This book shows how practitioners in the emerging field of "cultural epidemiology" describe human health, communicate with diverse audiences, and ...

Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations

Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston

Professor Thomas-Houston presents an anthropological study of issues within a Southern, small-town Black community affecting social action, political participation, and ...

Aafke E. Komter

This book brings together two traditions of thinking about social ties: sociological theory on solidarity and anthropological theory on gift ...

Eric Abella Roth

Two distinctive approaches to the study of human demography exist within anthropology today: anthropological demography and human evolutionary ecology. Culture, ...

A Biocultural Perspective

Andrea S. Wiley

It considers how the unique mountain ecology and socio-cultural patterns of the Himalayan region of Ladakh contribute to a peculiar ...

Janet Carsten

Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is ...

Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern

This book combines two classic topics in social anthropology in a new synthesis: the study of witchcraft and sorcery and ...

The Edge of Experience

Edited by Janis Hunter Jenkins, Robert John Barrett

This volume partners anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians currently studying schizophrenia and the cultural processes through which it is experienced. ...

Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean

James Fairhead, Melissa Leach

This book brings science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring the globalisation of science and its contrasting effects ...

Nancy E. Riley, James McCarthy

Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain both its political and academic strength. In this new study, ...

An Anthropology of Public Reasoning

John R. Bowen

In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, Muslims struggle to reconcile radically different sets of social norms and laws, including ...

The Formative Years

Christopher Johnson

The most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists, Claude Lévi-Strauss' work has been influential across the entire field of the humanities and ...

Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak van der Geest, Anita Hardon

Anthropologists show that medicines are more than chemical substances with medical effects. They have social lives because they move between ...

Anthropological Approaches

Edited by Roger Goodman

Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This book ...

Daniel E. Moerman

Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures, but many things ...

An Anthropological Life

Stanley J. Tambiah

Stanley J. Tambiah discusses the life of Edmund Leach (1910 - 1989), one of Britain's foremost social and cultural anthropologists, and a ...

Edited by Jeannette Marie Mageo

Power and the Self deals with an important but neglected topic: the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, ...

The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses

Edited by David I. Kertzer, Dominique Arel

At the cutting edge of this research is the question of the role played by the state in certifying and ...

Anthropological Perspectives

Edited by Jane K. Cowan, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Richard A. Wilson

Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of ...

Edited by Carmella C. Moore, Holly F. Mathews

This volume identifies an emerging synthesis in psychological anthropology and presents the new research agenda taking shape as the discipline ...

Edited by Catherine Panter-Brick, Malcolm T. Smith

The situation of abandoned children attracts surprisingly little attention from social scientists. Not enough is said about the varieties of ...

Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies

Edited by Judy S. DeLoache, Alma Gottlieb

Are babies divine, or have they the devil in them? Should parents talk to their infants, or is it a ...

Development and History

Paul Sillitoe

This book offers a clear and absorbing account of social change in Melanesia since the arrival of Europeans, covering the ...