The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective ...

In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives...

The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838-1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circl...

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space...

This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial...

William E. Mitchell revisits his early fieldwork with a three-part study of the history of coloni...

Nullius is an award-winning anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India ...

For the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea, womba is a malignant power with the potential t...

Cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar.Fernando O...

In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of s...

The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous pe...

Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism.This collection of essays by Arjun App...