A motley group’s long trek across the prairies, witnessing the land, reflecting on the past, and creating new paths for ......more

A motley group’s long trek across the prairies, witnessing the land, reflecting on the past, and creating new paths for ......more

Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through "Toxic Tours" in whic......more

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology takes readers through historical and contemporary sites of multimodality and introduc......more

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by hu......more

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by hu......more

The ancient Egyptian Civilization dominated the northeast corner of Africa-including modern-day Egypt and, at times, nor......more

What would it have been like to walk down the streets of Viking Age Dublin a thousand years ago? What would you have see......more

Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge, fr......more

Ajanta’s Evolution: From Savakayana to Bodhisatvayana amid Hunnic Turmoil offers a new scholarly exploration of the rock......more

"Unheil," curse, disaster: according to German scholar Gerhard Kittel, this is the Jewish destiny attested to in scriptu......more

Disease and Healing in the Indus Civilisation presents a synthesis of what is currently known about health, disease and ......more

Translocality, Entrepreneurship and Middle Class Across Eurasia is a comprehensive, multi-sited ethnography about the un......more

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This book firmly positions lived experience-led expertise as a unique and compelling form of knowledge in decolonising a......more

Exploring the meanings in the intricate symbolism of a rare Precolumbian manuscript  This book explores the rich symbol......more

The deep and personal story--told through history, poetry, and images--of the forced displacement of the Sámi people fro......more

How a new paradigm of self-sufficiency is about to force a reinvention of all social parameters. The world is marked by ......more

Settler Ecologies reveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations....more

A critical look at how the US military is weaponizing technology and data for new kinds of warfare--and why we must resi......more

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influen......more

On a remote island in the South Pacific, the Lavongai have consistently struggled to obtain development through logging ......more

Some Heroes of Travel, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this wo......more

The Past in Perspective: An Introduction to Human Prehistory, Ninth Edition, is an engaging and up-to-date chronological......more

A heterodox compendium of "beasts of waste," playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animals. W......more

This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by b......more

This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic c......more

In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily ac......more

In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily ac......more

In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and cons......more

Grounded in anthropological comparison and the concept of materiality, this book offers an in-depth ethnographic study o......more

How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography,......more

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how......more

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (A......more

Bringing together major scholars, Between Life and Thought explores the burgeoning subfield of existential anthropology ......more

This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial perio......more

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An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor Acts exami......more

An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda. Master Plans and Minor Acts exami......more

Everyone wants to be and to feel at home. Yet, being homely requires a space or place where one can admit feeling famili......more

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean is a collection of critical perspectives on independence a......more

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The Levites in the book of Deuteronomy are portrayed in the cultic and social spheres of Israel. According to the prevai......more

Bringing together major scholars, Between Life and Thought explores the burgeoning subfield of existential anthropology ......more

This groundbreaking study of the origins of capitalism in Castile sheds important new light on a number of historiograph......more

The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition (1886-1889), directed by Frank Hamilton Cushing, was the first priva......more

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In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how th......more

You are more than your job. Optimize your happiness, bank account, personal growth, with this practical playbook to achi......more

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - From one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists, an important and timely work of cu......more

A chronicle of a unique waterscape and how its inhabitants navigated, claimed, and reshaped the region. Few maritime lan......more

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from......more

After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious......more

After a long struggle, Jewish emancipation was formally completed in Germany in 1871, when Wilhelm I abolished religious......more

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Worcester is one of England’s great historic cities, with a history of occupation that goes back to the Iron Age. It was......more

The period between 1500 and the present day has directly formed the world we live in. Growing population, increased urba......more

Khirbet Qumran and Ain-Feshkha III A: For 60 years Qumran research has been focused on epigraphy, exegesis, and the hist......more

In Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention, Katharine Keenan argues for the reimagining of place in Belfast, Northe......more

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-......more

The "anthropological turn" in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam’s "Anthropology of music" (19......more

In this book, the late Richard Redding synthesizes his decades-long work on the ancient agricultural economy of Egypt. D......more

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the ......more

Revealing the resiliency of Nahua culture and language while highlighting the adaptations and changes they have undergon......more

This is a narrative of struggle and solidarity and a collective toolkit for grassroots opposition to the twenty-first ce......more

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This book investigates the intersection of technology and heritage, focusing on the use of immersive techniques (digital......more

The study of childhood in historical archaeology enriches interpretations of the past, but also has the potential for co......more

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This second edition of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset serves as a primer for practitioners who want to ap......more

This second edition of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset serves as a primer for practitioners who want to ap......more

Given the limited economic opportunities in rural Nepal, the desire of young men of all income and education levels, cas......more

From the image offered by the Babylonian Talmud, Jewish elites were deeply embedded within the Sasanian Empire (224-651 ......more

During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-cal......more

During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-cal......more