The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people of south-eastern Papua New Gui...

Of Alien Kings and Perpetual Kin presents a detailed understanding and analysis of the ideology o...

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

How does a craft reinvent itself as 'traditional' following cultural, social and political upheav...

Written at a time when disasters both natural - drought, famine - and manmade - the war in Yugosl...

Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study of artsfestivals has long been...

This impressive work of scholarship brings together anthropology, religion, popular culture, and ...

This collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Urgent Anthropology ...

The importance and ramifications of saints, sainthood and pilgrimage in contemporary Iran and nei...

This rich account of potters in a southern Catalan village traces the history of pottery producti...

'Ambiguous sanctuaries' are places in which the sacred is shared. These exist in almost all relig...

A lost sketch book on a Portuguese castle rampart left Manuel João Ramos bereft, and the impulse ...

In Commons and Borderlands a leading social anthropologist examines early twenty-firstcentury int...

Twilight Zone Anthropology provides an engaging and multifaceted picture of anthropology in Polan...

Sketching and carving both visualize and memorize a given image, but within Nowau culture the man...

Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making,...

This is the extraordinary story of Mikidadi, an ordinary Tanzanian from a remote coastal island, ...

Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity's fading premodern Other. This volume...

Focusing on issues of empathy and mutuality, and self andother, as experienced in the everyday ch...

A beleaguered indigenous population came to the attention of the world in 1997 by threatening mas...

For well over a half century, Norman Whitten has spent a third of his professional life undertaki...

This book brings multiple sites of lusophony together, and illuminates how mobile configurations ...

Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, t...

Scholarly definitions of elites as those who wield political power and control distribution of re...

Roy Ellen's The Nuaulu World of Plants is the culmination of anthropological fieldwork on the eas...

At the centre of this collection are the actors and processes referred to by the distinguished Oc...

Medical Anthropology is the fastest growing field in anthropology. Over the last three decades it...

What constitutes a resource, and how do people make claims on them? In the context of a burgeonin...

What does it mean when whites say that certain Australian Aboriginal people have 'no culture' but...

Africa is known for its multi-faceted immaterial culture, manifested in highly original music, or...

Colour is largely assumed to be already in the world, a natural universal that everyone, everywhe...

While the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran is internationally acknowledged, the world outside Ir...

Why has Asmat art, from a remote and small south-coast West Papuan society, had such a significan...

'Just leave the tree-trunk alone, the beetle is crawling out.'This Bawòng proverb means: surrende...

In investigating both customary and modern Pacific art, these collected essays present a wide-ran...

Sixteen months on a small Greek island? Not the holiday of a lifetime, but the start of anthropol...

The Culture of Invention in the Americas takes the theoretical contribution of one of anthropolog...

Living with Things provides an account of consumption in terms of its centrality to our dwelling ...

Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural tur...

Occasional Paper No. 44 of the Royal Anthropological InstitutePublished in association with the A...

. Essential reading for policy makers and practitioners alike. Seeks to address juvenile delinque...

Before the emergence of anthropology around the middle of the nineteenth century, there was no et...

This volume gives a vital and unique insight into the effects of mining and other forms of resour...

In this volume we are provided with a unique insider's perspective on the rich culture of the nor...

Based primarily on a former coal-mining village in Northeast England, this book explores practice...

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

In this book, Marcio Goldman provides an interpretation of a 'big' theme - the functioning of a m...

The Things We Value takes as its subject the creativity and cultural heritage of Solomon Islands,...