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Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary exchanges, both past and present, which have engaged cultural anthropologists—and invites readers to continue ......

This collection brings together recent innovative work in applied and practicing anthropology. Organised around the theme of unexpectedness, it examines...

The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for...

Analyzing the role of rhetoric and ideology in the western 'war on terror' and Islamic 'jihad' in the aftermath of...

Astronomers around the world are pointing their telescopes toward the heavens, searching for signs of intelligent life. If they make...

This book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team...

Focusing on the agency of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the South, this work argues for the systematic unveiling...

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropol......

Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern)...

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

In recent scholarship there is an emerging interest in the integration of philosophy and theology. Philosophers and theologians address the...

In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers...

Women in academia have struggled for centuries to establish levels of acceptance and credibility equal to men in the same...

The waves of change sweeping the MENA compel social scientists and anthropologists in particular to move beyond local specificities and...

Ever since its first publication in 1932, Sorcerers of Dobu has been recognized as one of the great triumphs of...

The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common...

The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of pr......

Can the eclectic medieval history of the world's most conquered island be a lesson for our times? Home to Normans,...

In this benchmark volume top scholars come together to present state-of-the-art research and pursue a more rigorous framework for understanding...

Observation is one of the foundational methods of qualitative inquiry-but only if it is conducted in a systematic fashion that...