Anthropology

This volume is a collective production by Carleton University's anthropology caucus, for use in introductory courses in cultural anthropology.

In Somatic States, Franck Bille examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders.

A collection of research on migration, diet, and health in the past across a culturally complex regionBioarchaeology of East Asia integrates studies on migration, diet, and diverse aspects of health through the study of human skeletal collections in a region that developed varying forms of agriculture.

This book addresses the gap in our historical knowledge about the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers have played in Australia's history of school education.

What it means to become and live as a Satanist?

Se ofrece una descripcion del tesoro invaluable que conforman los testimonios de la expresion de numerosos grupos indigenas de Mexico.

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi year, systematic, quantitative assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well being changes over time in a small scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.

With a new title that reflects the broad scope and primary concerns of the field, Introducing Health Anthropology: A Discipline in Action, Fourth Edition, provides students with a first look at the dynamic discipline of medical and health anthropology.

This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal.

Originally published in 1978, this global comparative survey investigates the political, social and economic features of feudalism.

This book brings together diverse perspectives from a range of geographic settings and feature contributions from some of the key thinkers in the field.

This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal.

First published in 1992, Revitalizing European Rituals explores why revitalization of celebrations is taking place in communities throughout Europe.

Fair Trade Enclaves tells the story of exploitation and inequality in the production of Fair Trade bananas.

First published in 1992, Revitalizing European Rituals explores why revitalization of celebrations is taking place in communities throughout Europe.

El món dels pastors és un món singular.

This volume explores how so-called digital natives of GenZ use media in the crafting of generational beliefs and representational practices around sex, gender, and sexuality.

Asian Parenting provides a comprehensive and scholarly discussion of the distinct features, meanings, and implications for human development of contemporary Asian parenting, beyond Western theoretical frameworks.

In Gone Gone, Todd Meyers reckons with grief in the face of overdose death and with the afterlives of loss created by the opioid crisis.

"En la década de 1970, nuevos métodos de investigación en ciencias sociales comenzaron a florecer en América Latina, conectando a los investigadores académicos con los movimientos sociales de base.

Explore the Enigma of the Arcane PathsDiscover a world where shadows dance with the light, revealing truths long hidden and paths less traveled.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

An ';engrossing, unputdownable' (Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author) pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all.

In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofia Servian detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina's urban poor rely on to survive.

In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North.

This book focuses on Greenlandic oral history and how to better understand people, their cultural remains, and their landscape through their own stories.