What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained ...

Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book describes and interprets trance behaviour am...

Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are comp...

A comparative analysis of notions of personhood and embodiment in African and Melanesian societies.

Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold compara...

What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained ...

This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of rel...

Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a communi...

A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-i...

In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael ...

'Tense Past' provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in...

A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-i...

In the second edition of the highly acclaimed Reader in the Anthropology of Religion, Michael Lam...

Land is the nexus of Malagasy livelihood and socio-cultural relations. Simultaneously, the Malaga...

Documenting Michael Lambek’s Tanner Lecture, Concepts and Persons is an accessible and engaging r...

Part family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugend...

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting ...

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting ...