Why is it that, throughout their history, humans have repeatedly taken on the task of developing ...

First published fifty years ago, Emile Benveniste's two-volume Problemes de linguistique generale...

Through a rich narrative ethnography of domestic life, this book explores the philosophy of socia...

An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritua...

In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives...

This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial...

The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective ...

For the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea, womba is a malignant power with the potential t...

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space...

Nullius is an award-winning anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India ...

William E. Mitchell revisits his early fieldwork with a three-part study of the history of coloni...

The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838-1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circl...

Cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar.Fernando O...

In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of s...

The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous pe...

Analysis of an agrarian society confronted with capitalism.This collection of essays by Arjun App...

Pik and Pac Vacation Adventure Series #1. Pik and Pak are stranded on a strange blue planet! Join...

Mary, Mother of JesusA Celebrated Tale of Humility, Courage, and Divine CallingIn this beautifull...

''The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I...

In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascinati...

First published in the French language as 'Le principe de la chimere: Une anthropologie de la mem...

Marcel Mauss famous 'Essay on the Gift' has now returned to its original context. For the first t...

Written in the early 1970s, amidst widespread debate over the origins and causes of women's subor...

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This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros ...

First published in 1982, Christopher A. Gregory s 'Gifts and commodities' is one of the undispute...

In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's 'Golden Bough,' published posthu...

Since its publication in 1969, Émile Benveniste's Vocabulaire--here in a new translation as the D...

'This new translation of Sud e magia, his 1959 study of ceremonial magic and witchcrafts in south...

'A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researc...

Unexpected Subjects is an ethnography of the encounter between women's words and the demands of t...

A pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts.In Imacoqwa's Arrow, Jadran Mimica draws on...

'For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place ...

A lively exploration of the Indigenous traditions of shamanism in the Far North of Eurasia and No...

A classic text that develops one prong of Dumezil's tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes...

A formative ethnography of the relationship between markets and social life, back in print.  Orig...

This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and e...

A new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues. In How Is It Between Us?, Jar...

A new English translation of a forgotten German text that influenced cultural understanding of mo...

A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact ...

Examining social constructions and perceptions of nature.

A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact ...

A new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's influential ethnography of a village in Dominica.Over t...

Seeks to better understand the nature of corruption through a case study of a rural Brazilian com...

In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the c...

A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia.  C...