Of Property and Propriety

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Unique in its approach, this collection of essays examines property relations, moral regulations pertaining to gender, and nationalism in India, Kurdi... Lees meer

Suspect Others

Stuart Earle Strange

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife ... Lees meer

Irish Travellers

Jane Helleiner

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state set... Lees meer

From Equality to Inequality

Csilla Dallos

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic field... Lees meer

'We Are Still Didene'

Thomas McIlwraith

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, 'We Are Still Didene' examines the community's tra... Lees meer

Double Twist from Ethnography

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Levi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula," which he created in 1955 as a means of anthropological ... Lees meer

Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana

Sean Hawkins

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterra... Lees meer

Moral Figures

Alexandra Widmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-f... Lees meer

A World of Relationships

Sylvie Poirier

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal gr... Lees meer

People of Substance

Carlos Londono-Sulkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves 'People of... Lees meer

Moving Words

Andrew Brandel

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city - a... Lees meer

Europe Un-Imagined

Damien Stankiewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the world's first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision euro... Lees meer

Irish Travellers

Jane Helleiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state set... Lees meer

Kaleidoscopic Odessa

Tanya Richardson

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run thr... Lees meer

Maps of Experience

Andie Diane Palmer

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• In many North American indigenous cultures, history and stories are passed down, not by the written word, but by oral tradition. In Maps of Experience... Lees meer

Without the State

Emily Channell-Justice

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Without the State explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests - a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine - through in-depth ethnographic rese... Lees meer

The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood

Lindsay DuBois

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation... Lees meer

Colonial 'Reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi Indonesia,1892-1995

Albert Schrauwers

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons | nr. 14
• The To Pamona, the people of the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, exhibit the effects of a complicated history of colonial contact. In this a... Lees meer

Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa, 1990-94

S Nombuso Dlamini

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Documenting youth participation in the South African anti-apartheid struggle, Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa examines identity constructi... Lees meer

Island in the Stream

Michael Lambek

• Hardcover | Anthropological Horizons
• This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years... Lees meer

Moving Words

Andrew Brandel

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city - a... Lees meer

Milanese Encounters

Cristina Moretti

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recogni... Lees meer

Exemplary Life

Andreas Bandak

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• Based on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Nazzour, who serves as an a... Lees meer

The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood

Lindsay DuBois

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropological Horizons
• The Argentine dictatorship of 1976 to 1983 set out to transform Argentine society. Employing every means at its disposal - including rampant violation... Lees meer