Indeterminacy

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 7
• What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings i... Lees meer

Moral Engines

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 5
• In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to huma... Lees meer

The State We're in

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 3
• What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens ac... Lees meer

The Social Life of Achievement

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 2
• What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and it... Lees meer

Selfishness and Selflessness

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 10
• We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and sel... Lees meer

Sociality

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 1
• The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the c... Lees meer

Moral Engines

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 5
• In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to huma... Lees meer

The State We're in

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 3
• What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens ac... Lees meer

The Social Life of Achievement

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 2
• What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and it... Lees meer

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

John Fahy

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 9
• Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) dev... Lees meer

It Happens Among People

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 8
• Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropo... Lees meer

An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 15
• Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the cent... Lees meer

Indeterminacy

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 7
• What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings i... Lees meer

New Perspectives on Moral Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 13
• The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of fami... Lees meer

Where Is the Good in the World?

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 12
• Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse set... Lees meer

It Happens Among People

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 8
• Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropo... Lees meer

After Difference

Paolo Heywood

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 6
• Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The ... Lees meer

The Patient Multiple

Jonathan Taee

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 4
• In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expandin... Lees meer

Making Better Lives

Johannes Lenhard

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 11
• In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of ... Lees meer

Making Better Lives

Johannes Lenhard

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 11
• In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of ... Lees meer

After Difference

Paolo Heywood

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 6
• Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The ... Lees meer

The Patient Multiple

Jonathan Taee

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 4
• In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expandin... Lees meer

Sociality

• Paperback | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 1
• The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the c... Lees meer

Against Better Judgment

• Hardcover | Engels | Wyse Social Anthropology | nr. 14
• Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work ... Lees meer