Anthropology

Traces the emergence of literary history, showing how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared heritage to produce a ''Persianate modernity''.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

This book links the current wave of political polarisation to the polarisation taking place between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses and their antagonistic valuation of iconic urban and regional places.

Introduces the concept of language socialization by providing case studies from various classrooms around the world.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Race, Gender, and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance investigates and expands the multifaceted how and what of puppetry and material performance.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Race, Gender, and Disability in Puppetry and Material Performance investigates and expands the multifaceted how and what of puppetry and material performance.

A collection of detailed case studies that emphasize partnerships with local and descendant communities to foster ethical, inclusive research practicesThis book highlights approaches to archaeological research that emphasize active involvement of local communities and descendant groups in the design, investigation, interpretation, and management of sites and heritage.

One of the only guides to the prehistoric archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula that engages with key anthropological and archaeological debates.

Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

A focused debate on human subjectivity and post-humanism, with a range of theoretical and ethnographic responses to a classic article.

Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.

Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.

Illuminates hot button issues in contemporary Latin America from an intellectually radical perspective: a sociological theory of democracy as civil sphere.

This book redesigns environmental governance for a sustainability transition, helping academics and decision-makers truly understand the socio-economic impacts of policy.

This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

Fischer uses evolutionary psychology to explain why people''s personality and values are both similar and different across cultures worldwide.

The Anthropocene narrative reproduces an ideological divide between Society and Nature and forecloses an inclusive politics of global warming.

Legal frameworks to ''reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation'' (REDD+) are analysed to focus on protections and benefits for indigenous peoples and forest communities.

Argues that the Eurasian steppe political tradition has been globally influential, particularly in the socio-political formation of modern Russia and Turkey.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow.

Examines the creation of ''sporting plantations'' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

Follows the activist campaign that contested the Botswana government''s removal of indigenous peoples from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

The first collection of essays on Aristotle''s philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Examines the politics shaping whether, how and to what extent cities engage in global climate governance.

Despite the long tradition of exploring the Tantric temple culture of Namputiri Brahmins within Tantric studies, the Sakta stream remains under-researched.

Necrosociety, Mortispolitics, and Miquiztli-politics challenges the underlying assumptions of necropolitics and biopolitics, exploring core concepts such as neoliberalism, neonationalism, and decoloniality, and proposing a new framework that expands our comprehension of these two domains.

This book examines the nexus of environmental change and defence in the Arctic as a national and global security issue.

This book is available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the Lund University Library and the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund University.

An original and immersive account of how immigrant communities navigate end-of-life decisions while facing barriers to political inclusion and citizenship.

This book bridges the gaps between ethnoecological, legal frameworks, political systems, and global ideologies to create a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities surrounding environmental sustainability.

This book bridges the gaps between ethnoecological, legal frameworks, political systems, and global ideologies to create a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities surrounding environmental sustainability.

This book explores different aspects of LA-ICP-MS (laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry).

Paleoanthropology is perhaps the most multidisciplinary of all the sciences.

Das Gedächtnis und der Prozess des Erinnerns – zwei zentrale Elemente in sozialwissenschaftlichen Befragungsverfahren – sind selten thematisierte Grundlagen in der sonst breit diskutierten Befragungsmethodologie.

Das Gedächtnis und der Prozess des Erinnerns – zwei zentrale Elemente in sozialwissenschaftlichen Befragungsverfahren – sind selten thematisierte Grundlagen in der sonst breit diskutierten Befragungsmethodologie.

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