Anthropology

How are prestige and power anchored in EU-Brussels?

Explores how language is used in a contact setting to build and present identities, expectations and social relations.

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world.

Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches and methods have seen an explosion of recent interest in the social and environmental sciences.

Focusing on complex entanglements of religion and gender from a diversity of perspectives, this book explores how women enact agencies in transcultural Hindu and Buddhist settings.

This book reconstructs Hindu-Muslim relations from a European standpoint.

How do you become an 'amputee', 'war-wounded', 'victim' or 'disabled' person?

As the university transformed itself into a center of innovation, and biotechnology became a billion-dollar industry, commercialization of university inventions became both lucrative and urgent.

Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic interests in tropical Africa.

With an emphasis on peer-produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a departure from traditional management and organizational models.

The far right is on the rise across Europe, pushing a battle scenario in which Islam clashes with Christianity as much as Christianity clashes with Islam.

Due to their high nutritive value and the presence of secondary metabolites, wetland plants can be consumed by humans as food and utilized as medicinal drugs.

Unlock the chemical secrets of ancient pottery in this guide for mastering organic residue pottery analysis.

This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised.

Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality.

A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.

Palomitay is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old.

Examines how a twentieth-century middle-class black family navigated life in stratified rural Mississippi.

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women's reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam.

Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold.

This book brings together the diverse narratives of researchers' personalized stories about the process of doing doctoral research (PhD) in the field of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) and about the life after the completion of such life-forming experience.

In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer.

Experiments in Holism Experiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today s world.

Combining black feminist theory, philosophy, and performance studies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom.

Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as perceiving, remembering, learning, and problem solving.

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers.

A History of Mobility in New Mexico uses the often-enigmatic chipped stone assemblages of the Taos Plateau to chart patterns of historical mobility in northern New Mexico.

This innovative book finally takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth ethnographies of children's play.

This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society.

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species.

Emotions are a loaded topic.

As the arts become an increasingly popular pedagogical tool in writing studies, Arts-Based Research Methods in Writing Studies offers scholars and educators in the field ways to leverage the arts for their own scholarship through the practice of arts-based research (ABR).

This book explores two major social problems facing Chinese society today: increased strain in the lives of young people and heightened rates of crime and delinquency, ultimately examining the links between them.

How are identities being forged during the age of globalization?

Fad diets have influenced our society for hundreds of years.

This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of "e;gray mist killings.

Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet.

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history.

An exploration of how the contemporary Roman Catholic church tackles, regulates and accommodates belief in witchcraft.

Combining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.

"e;A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

2025 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARDS WINNER: EUROPEAN HISTORYIn June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd.

Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population.

Materials play a central role in society.

An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.