How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial...
Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses...
Ritual Studies have achieved prominence since the 1980s, when interest in ritual as an object of ...
What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experie...
'Take a look around your workplace and try to find the following items: A statement of business o...
This book provides a wide ranging introduction to the meaning and context of violence. The author...
In small town Hamilton, Texas, things are not as peaceful as they seem when a set of big city tee...
Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Stra...
How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The c...
Two classic topics in social anthropology are combined in this work--the study of witchcraft and ...
More and more, anthropologists are recruited as consultants by government departments, companies ...
HMP Holloway was the largest women's prison in Europe, historically holding numerous infamous fem...