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

Seeing Like a Smuggler

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric perspectives hide many soc... Lees meer

When Protest Becomes Crime

Carolijn Terwindt

• Paperback | 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

Control and Subversion

Colette Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Control and Subversion investigates the relationship of gender to the inner workings of social control, such as exposing ways in which post-Soviet Taj... 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

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

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

Seeing Like a Smuggler

Mahmoud Keshavarz, Shahram Khosravi

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonization. 'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson Gilmore The word smug... Lees meer

Risk Revisited

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions o... Lees meer

New Directions In Economic Anthropology

Susana Narotzky

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• 'Narotzky is particularly compelling in her discussion of the relation between the counted and unaccounted as it enters practices and ideology in the ... Lees meer

Rubbish Belongs to the Poor

Patrick O'Hare

• Paperback | 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

Children of the Welfare State

Laura Gilliam, Eva Gulløv

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Children of the Welfare State uses the case of Denmark--employed as emblematic of the European state--to consider the ways in which children are "civi... Lees meer

Witchcraft, Power and Politics

Isak Niehaus, Eliazaar Mohlala, Kally Shokaneo

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This is an extraordinary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch-hunting in 1980s South Af... 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

Audit Culture

Cris Shore, Susan Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is i... 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

The Anthropology of Security

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-c... Lees meer

Locating Cultural Creativity

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This book reexamines the interconnectedness of culture and creativity in an increasingly hybrid world. They argue that while many of the old certainti... 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

Flip-Flop

Caroline Knowles

• Paperback | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Kno... Lees meer

Cultivating Development

David Mosse

• Hardcover | 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

Small Places, Large Issues

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, introducing countless students to the field and the tools i... 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

Deepening Divides

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society
• At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entiti... Lees meer