Anthropology

This book examines the paradox whereby spiritual afflictions (conditions attributed to ancestors, jinns, spirits, witchcraft, and other intangible entities) remain central to everyday therapeutic worlds in Africa and the diaspora, yet are routinely sidelined or rendered invisible in official public health policies and global health agendas.

Across a wide array of religious traditions, temples are sacred, private spaces where observers can worship with other members of their congregation.

Tombs, Mummies and Burials: The Ancient World's Obsession With DeathBeneath the healing springs and Victorian spires of Eureka Springs lie echoes of humanity's oldest rituals—ancient tombs hidden in Ozark hollows, cave burials, and legends of the restless dead that mirror civilizations half a world away.

Lost Worlds: From Ancient Civilizations to Unexplained PhenomenaStep into the shadowed hollows and mist-veiled bluffs of the Ozarks, where the veil between past and present thins.

Is traditional American religion doomed?

Are most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness?

Across a wide array of religious traditions, temples are sacred, private spaces where observers can worship with other members of their congregation.

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States.

Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half.

First published in 2000, Divided by Faith has become a landmark book for understanding race and religion in the United States.

The conservation of biodiversity and natural resources is ultimately and unavoidably about managing conflict.

Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal figures originating in the metropolis.

Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform.

Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal figures originating in the metropolis.

This book examines the paradox whereby spiritual afflictions (conditions attributed to ancestors, jinns, spirits, witchcraft, and other intangible entities) remain central to everyday therapeutic worlds in Africa and the diaspora, yet are routinely sidelined or rendered invisible in official public health policies and global health agendas.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026A spellbinding first-hand account of art, survival and resistance in wartime Ukraine The most beautifully written, moving book I can ever remember reading PHILIPPA PERRY A book for our times PHILIPPE SANDS'A brilliant and unforgettable book' EDMUND DE WAALCharlotte Higgins never imagined she would report on a war.

When a suicide terrorist strikes in Israel, the usual contingent of first responders that one might see anywhere in the world -- police, medics, firefighters -- are accompanied by another group, one found only in Israel.

On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved.

Die Einheit der Sinne von 1923 gilt oft als dunkles und schwerfälliges Frühwerk.

Die Einheit der Sinne von 1923 gilt oft als dunkles und schwerfälliges Frühwerk.

Es un estudio antropológico y estético sobre uno de los textiles más complejos y simbólicos de la Sierra Norte de Puebla: el quechquemitl de Pantepec.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Dawn of Mankind, the story of how fragile primates became toolmakers, storytellers, farmers, and builders of civilization.

Waste and Wealth examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste trading networks originating from a rural district in Vietnam.

The body has always been more than flesh.

Alle hundert Jahre fragen zwei Engel: »Schwärmen die Bienen noch?

Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status.

Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status.

In her heart-pounding and courageous debut, Dr.

Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform.

This engagingly written and deeply ethnographic work examines the economic and political factors that led to the Greek debt crisis, including financial pressures from international lenders, unregulated spending by the Greek government, predatory bank loans, and rising unemployment.

The First Adirondackers challenges the widespread, long-standing belief that the Adirondack uplands of northern New York were uninhabited before the arrival of European colonizers.

Evolutionary medicine has been steadily gaining recognition, not only in modern clinical research and practice, but also in bioarchaeology (the study of archaeological human remains) and especially its sub-discipline, palaeopathology.

The First Adirondackers challenges the widespread, long-standing belief that the Adirondack uplands of northern New York were uninhabited before the arrival of European colonizers.

There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia.

Mirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries.

There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia.

The story most often commonly told about the Maya involves their spectacular collapse at the height of their civilization in the early ninth century CE.

'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.

A jaw-dropping re-evaluation of everything we thought we knew about men, women, and sex.

What are our bodies really capable of?

According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them.

This book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language.

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others.

Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "e;view"e;, and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings.

People in the Romanian village of Sateni distrust each other so much, that they would rather take a building apart than share it.

People in the Romanian village of Sateni distrust each other so much, that they would rather take a building apart than share it.

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others.