Pat Caplan is a social anthropologist who began doing research on Mafia Island for her Ph.D. in t...

Are disputes ever really resolved, or do people need to find ways of accommodating them and livin...

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in...

Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable...

This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and mo...

African Voices, African Lives explores the world of 'Mohammed', a swahili peasant living on Mafia...

Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating...

This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challe...

Some of the foremost specialists in the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how p...

Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable...

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which...

This is the extraordinary story of Mikidadi, an ordinary Tanzanian from a remote coastal island, ...