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Experimental Film and Anthropology urges a new dialogue between two seemingly separate fields. The book explores the practical and theoretical...

Language and Social Change in China: Undoing Commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin offers an innovative and authoritative account of the crucial...

Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, a......

American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or...

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept...

This insightful book tracks the concept of culture across a range of scholarly disciplines and much of the twentieth and...

As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining...

Muslim NGOs are continuously expanding their field of activities to various areas, including education, medical services, environment, aging societies, gender...

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assump......

Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a...

Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea...

As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of...

This compact volume covers the main developments in the social sciences since the Second World War. Chapters on economics, human...

Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are...

One of the most dynamic research areas in the prehistory of East Asian regions is the synthesis of the findings...

Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that...

This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically...

In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new...

A discussion on the specific cultural manifestations of the relationship between dogs and Jews, from ancient times to the present,...