Slave Of Allah

Katherine C Donahue

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• In 2006 Zacarias Maussaoui became the first person to stand trial for the events of September 11 2001. This timely book provides a close insight into ... Lees meer

State Formation

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state. The contributors argue that the state is not... Lees meer

Cultivating Development

David Mosse

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises a... Lees meer

Claiming Individuality

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book takes a different approach: it explores the... Lees meer

The Paradox of Svalbard

Zdenka Sokolícková

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• 'Engaging, rich and nuanced, this book exposes the deep dilemmas facing this Arctic archipelago. A must for anyone with an interest in the challenges ... Lees meer

Race And Sex In Latin America

Peter Wade

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Interracial sexual relations are often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities, but the importance of this has been under explored. ... Lees meer

Power And Its Disguises

John Gledhill

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• 'Gledhill manages to cover a lot of ground in drawing out the thematic and theoretical focuses of political anthropology, brilliantly giving them life... Lees meer

Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque

Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan Goodhand, Shahul Hasbullah

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? In Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque s... Lees meer

Corruption

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the fiel... Lees meer

Corruption

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the fiel... Lees meer

Rubbish Belongs to the Poor

Patrick O'Hare

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Garbage. Waste. Trash. Whatever term you choose to describe the things we throw away, the connotations are the same; of something dirty, useless and i... Lees meer

As If Already Free

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• "Contains precious insights into what made David Graeber the most innovative social thinker of our time, and why the legacy of his ideas will inspire ... Lees meer

When Protest Becomes Crime

Carolijn Terwindt

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• How does protest become criminalised? Applying an anthropological perspective to political and legal conflicts, Carolijn Terwindt urges us to critical... Lees meer

Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations

Anette Nyqvist

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the proc... Lees meer

A History of Anthropology, A

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Roman... Lees meer

What is Anthropology?

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, b... Lees meer

Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality

Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole? This volume explores the ... Lees meer

Caring Cash

Tom Neumark

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Anthropological study of the impact of cash grants on the economic dynamics and relationships among Kenya's urban poor The idea of giving cash, no-str... Lees meer

How We Struggle

Sian Lazar

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labor struggles and workers' political agency When it comes to labor movements, unionized indu... Lees meer

Cultures of Fear

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism. Freedom from fear is a universal right... Lees meer

Vicious Games

Rebecca Cassidy

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Gambling is everywhere, on our TVs and phones, on billboards on our streets, and emblazoned across the chests of idolised sports stars. Why has gambli... Lees meer

Anthropology's World

Ulf Hannerz

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in whic... Lees meer

Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control

Alexandra Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done wi... Lees meer

Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions

Samantha Hurn

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ways ... Lees meer