This book critiques the victim paradigm that occupies a central place in today’s world. As being a victim, or a self-pro......more

This book examines human disappearances anthropologically in various contexts, ranging from enforced disappearances unde......more

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How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government c......more

How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government c......more

This book considers the challenges posed by fieldwork in centres of power to researchers in the social sciences, with a ......more

"As an emerging field of study, critical surf studies was initially shaped by its first field-defining volume The Critic......more

"As an emerging field of study, critical surf studies was initially shaped by its first field-defining volume The Critic......more

"Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible" - Samantha Irby, #1 NYT ......more

Exploring a period of transformative change for the Woodland-era societies of Florida’s Lower Suwannee region In this bo......more

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’Traveller-specific’ architecture in Ireland and permanently ’temporary’ sites in the UK embody an insoluble contradicti......more

This book explores the intersection of culture, sustainability, and tourism. Also, it explores the importance of integra......more

Featuring the distinctive heights of Chinese culture, this book presents the readers with authors’ insights into the con......more

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In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental......more

In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental......more

This book provides a comprehensive overview of aging and its mechanisms through the prism of telomere length and its lin......more

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Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the inc......more

Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections b......more

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Drawing on archival sources, this book provides an anthropological exploration of the National College of Arts (NCA) in ......more

Tenochtitlan enjoyed a meteoric rise to power beginning in the thirteenth century, when its leaders transformed it into ......more

Through an examination of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, an......more

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, c......more

A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman Moral relationships saturate the living wor......more

In recent years, attitudes in the United States toward the Palestinian cause have shifted dramatically. Although Palesti......more

An insightful ethnographic account of the lives of Santería practitioners in Cuba How do Santería practitioners in Cuba ......more

Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This grou......more

The Duplex Nature of Indigeneity is a detailed ethnography centered on Ahuehuepan, a Mexican town in the Alto Balsas reg......more

The Duplex Nature of Indigeneity is a detailed ethnography centered on Ahuehuepan, a Mexican town in the Alto Balsas reg......more

Roman Imperial denarii from the first-third centuries AD are, almost without exception, the most common ancient coinage ......more

The story of the emerging professionalization of classical Indian dance forms in Britain is wrought with contradictions.......more

Tibetan understandings of nyoné -- ’madness’-- encompass a broad range of concepts. Perspectives on the causation and tr......more

External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical po......more

"Nature" as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that "the pristine nature" is ......more

Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and ......more

"Nature" as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that "the pristine nature" is ......more

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection,......more

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and t......more

The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 20 Ma......more

Ash is an important and yet understudied aspect of ritual deposition in the archaeological record of North America. Ash ......more

The book delivers a rich ethnographic account of present-day Indian communities in northern Italy, considering their jou......more

This book argues that tribal Scandinavia was set on the route to kingship by the arrival in the AD 180s-90s of warrior g......more

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Cultural studies do not represent a historicist approach focused on the origins and development of particular social and......more

During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-cal......more

The archaeological study of quarries focuses mainly on the reconstruction of the extraction process, while rock-hewn spa......more

The archaeological study of quarries focuses mainly on the reconstruction of the extraction process, while rock-hewn spa......more

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the e......more

A study of how coins, riches and lands were gained and distributed among the soldiers, warriors, and mercenaries in the ......more

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Chariots on Fire, Reins of Power presents the first comprehensive overview of 5th century BC elite graves from the Lower......more

Cremation in the Early Middle Ages draws together the latest research and thinking on early medieval cremation practices......more

Cremation in the Early Middle Ages draws together the latest research and thinking on early medieval cremation practices......more

This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regar......more

Yiddish culture was an important part of the cultural landscape of Eastern Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Danube, con......more

The aim of the thesis was to provide a framework for the identification and analysis of individual craftspeople in bifac......more

This is the first published monograph on 4Q185 Sapiential Admonitions B, an enigmatic Dead Sea Scroll’s wisdom text. The......more

This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the "market" and capitalism by revisitin......more

This book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship ......more

The Cycladic islands have traditionally been considered as backwaters during the Roman and Late Antique periods. Through......more

This edited volume was written on the occasion of the 33rd Congress of the Rei Cretari Roman Fautores (www.fautores.org)......more

This edited volume was written on the occasion of the 33rd Congress of the Rei Cretari Roman Fautores (www.fautores.org)......more

5,000 years ago, a migration shaped Europe’s future. Migrating communities spread across Europe within two centuries, le......more

This book sketches the first archaeological history of the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq and......more

This book sketches the first archaeological history of the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq and......more

The essays in this book focus on archaeological approaches to the utilization of highland regions in southwestern and ce......more

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the char......more

Infrared spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between infrared radiation and matter. Its application to the char......more

In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe’s largest surviving p......more

In the second millennium BC, mining for copper ore on the Great Orme, Wales, created one of Europe’s largest surviving p......more

This is a supplementary volume to the corpus of Romano-British mosaics published by the Society of Antiquaries of London......more