Beauty and Power

Mark Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making... Lees meer

A Celebration of Demons

Bruce Kapferer

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author ... Lees meer

What's in a Relative

Joan Bestard-Camps

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology | nr. 5
• In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can... Lees meer

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I)

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflec... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Time

Alfred Gell

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen distinguished authors examine the social, cultural and polit... Lees meer

Interpretative Archaeology

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric mat... Lees meer

A Phenomenology of Landscape

Christopher Tilley

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates p... Lees meer

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II)

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflec... Lees meer

Interpretative Archaeology

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric mat... Lees meer

Uncommon Ground

Veronica Strang

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• - What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international... Lees meer

Hahalis and the Labour of Love

Max Rimoldi, Eleanor Rimoldi

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to... Lees meer

The Urban Context

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology | nr. 22
• Addresses issues of current social and theoretical concern such as urban ethnic conflict, multiculturalism and immigration.How do people make sense of... Lees meer

Marketing and Modernity

Marianne E Lien

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology | nr. 40
• What 200 products can be made from a dead chicken?What should turkey really taste like?How can you make a ready-made meal appear less manufactured?How... Lees meer

The Inca Empire

Thomas C Patterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study... Lees meer

The Inca Empire

Thomas C Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study... Lees meer

A Phenomenology of Landscape

Christopher Tilley

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates p... Lees meer

Believing Identity

Nicole Toulis

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for ... Lees meer

Constituting the Minangkabau

Joel Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected... Lees meer

Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach

Daniel Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to charac... Lees meer

Believing Identity

Nicole Toulis

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for ... Lees meer

Material Conflicts

Neil Jarman

• Hardcover | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• The deep and abiding sectarian divide splintering Northern Ireland has been the focus of considerable attention recently. In particular, the role para... Lees meer

The Migration Process

Pnina Werbner

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to eme... Lees meer

Discourses of Development

• Paperback | Engels | Explorations in Anthropology
• Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers thin... Lees meer