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Canadian lawyer Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years collecting folklore relating to an alleged pygmy group in the Atlas...

This volume interrogates the use of interviews by placing the interview itself in the hot-seat exploring and its nature, interview...

This ethnography describes and explains how Mennonite Disaster Service, following a well-established tradition of helping their neighbors, organized voluntee......

The seven microstates of Europe are remarkable not only for their size, but their persistence as well. It is a...

Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing...

Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and...

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called �art,� and in most societies other than our...

Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the...

Questions around 'the body' are central to social theory. Our changing understanding of the body now challenges the ways we...

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group...

In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis...

Larisa Jasarevic offers an unforgettable look at the everyday experiences of people living in post-socialist, post-war Bosnia. Not at all...

Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands plumbs the archaeological record for what it can reveal about the creation...

The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses...

As Alice in Wonderland discovered, cave entrances, tunnels, spirals and mirrors can transport people to strange worlds where anything is...

Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world’s...

Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from around the world,...

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another's lives and ponder one another's states in...

Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general...

The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and...