The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writin...

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...

Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic': what stands outside of-and challenges-con...

As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasi...

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contri...

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt b...

Events are 'generative moments' in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larg...

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performan...

Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center ...

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity...

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily s...

The territorially sovereign nation-state - the globally dominant political formation of Western m...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuou...

The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficu...

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitut...

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new k...

Liminality: the state of being 'betwixt and between' is one of anthropology's most influential co...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuou...

In this pamphlet, the renowned anthropologist Bruce Kapferer revists Stanley Kubrick s classic fi...