Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making,...

The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficu...

Written at a time when disasters both natural - drought, famine - and manmade - the war in Yugosl...

Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, t...

Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural tur...

What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeonin...

This volume gives a vital and unique insight into the effects of mining and other forms of resour...

Based primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practice...

In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-firstcentury int...

At the centre of this collection are the actors and processes referred to by the distinguished Oc...

Sixteen months on a small Greek island? Not the holiday of a lifetime, but the start of anthropol...

‘Ambiguous sanctuaries’ are places in which the sacred is shared. These exist in almost all relig...