Explores for the first time the social, cultural and medical history of human corpses and burials...

This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts an...

This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologis...

How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and...

Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this bo...

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of dia...

The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and event...

Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For c...

Explores for the first time the social, cultural and medical history of human corpses and burials...

Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the ...

The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and event...