Found in two-thirds of the world, rabies is a devastating infectious disease with a 99.9 percent case-fatality rate and ......more
An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many pa......more
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This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies. Exploring the......more
This volume seeks to add to our understanding of how language is constructed in late capitalist societies. Exploring the......more
This book makes valuable theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of overseas doctoral stud......more
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This book examines the 2008 global economic crisis as a complex social phenomenon or "social hieroglyphic", arguing that......more
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of co......more
This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of co......more
This book advocates for a movement beyond the current colonial relationship with Indigenous Australians....more
Asia is changing. Socio-political shifts in the world economy, technological advances of monumental scales, movements of......more
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On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the Hammer examines the unrest--rebellion by the city’s B......more
On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the Hammer examines the unrest--rebellion by the city’s B......more
In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going......more
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Dating back to at least 50,000 years ago, rock art is one of the oldest forms of human symbolic expression. Geographical......more
"Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music." --Daniel Levitin A colossal history ......more
This is part of a three-volume final report of the renewed excavations at Ramat Raḥel by the Tel Aviv-Heidelberg Expedit......more
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Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the pa......more
Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, ......more
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This book reviews the evolutionary forces behind sex differences in fear responses and, crucially, delves into the mecha......more
In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian v......more
Deporting Europeans examines the processes by which some migrants are illegalized, detained, and deported in France, wit......more
This collection of essays on cultural astronomy celebrates the life and work of Clive Ruggles, Emeritus Professor of Arc......more
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By interrogating the terms and concepts most central to cultural change, Future Theoryinterrogates how theory can play a......more
Through the 19th century, as archaeology started to emerge as a systematic discipline, plaster casting became a widely-a......more
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Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities,......more
This book provides insights into the state of the art of digital cultural heritage using computer graphics, image proces......more
IntroductionI. The Historical Background of the Research on the Clustering Pattern of SettlementsII. The Realistic Signi......more
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This volume, timed to coincide with what would have been Williams’s 100th birthday, tests his ideas in our own experienc......more
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and ......more
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Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association and named one of the best science bo......more
"In her superb new book, Face: One Square Foot of Skin, Bateman invites us to intimately explore the fears that lead wom......more
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What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to mig......more
What does migration look like from the inside out? In The Outside, Alice Elliot decenters conventional approaches to mig......more
When Europeans battled for control over North America in the eighteenth century, American Indians were caught in the cro......more
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The first comparative historical study of the six Disneyland theme parks around the world in five distinct cultures: the......more
In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and......more
Stemming from four years of ethnographic research, media analysis of over 750 national news articles published in the 20......more
Part I Introduction: Theorizing the Resilience of Hybrid Bodies.- 1. Rematerializing the Cyborg: Understanding the Agenc......more
From the earliest settlement of the Norman soldiers and merchants, Galway built on its’ French relations and, indeed, fa......more
Moving, slowing down, or watching others moving allows people to cross physical, symbolic, and temporal boundaries. Expl......more
The mummy of Takabuti is one of the best known antiquities in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Takabuti was a young woman who......more
Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohisto......more
The Intimate Life of Dissent examines the meanings and implications of public acts of dissent, drawing on examples inclu......more
In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable.......more
Examines the culture and chronology of increasingly complex urban societies in western Anatolia during the Early Bronze ......more
A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in tra......more
A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in tra......more
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Populism and Heritage in Europe explores popular discourses about European and national heritage that are being used by ......more