Modern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century...

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food sy...

This synthesis of modern economic anthropology goes to the heart of a thriving subdiscipline and ...

Explores and explains how the mysteries of everyday life-from conversations and observations thro...

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food sy...

This book introduces economic anthropology to countries where it has never been taught before, in...

Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that ...

Explores and explains how the mysteries of everyday life-from conversations and observations thro...

Ein Eisenbahn-Tycoon ist schuld, dass die Ware von Hummerzüchterin Jane (Doris Day) halb kaputt b...

Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-...

Water is never just H2O. It is always more. It has its own ways of world-making and is much more ...

Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Envir...

Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.Belize, a tiny corner of t...

A group of experienced, innovative teachers explore methods of teaching about food and using food...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of Califor...