Social- & kulturantropologi

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the …

Ethnographic research, anthropological theory, and the understanding of the objects of inquiry, are co-created through figuration (using tropes and rhetorical figures) and …

The West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from heteronomy : it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first …

The practice of body suspension — piercing one’s own flesh with metal hooks and hanging from them — and its uniquely sprawling community challenge our cultural understanding of …

A fascinating interspecies relationship can be seen among the horse breeding pastoralists in the Altai and Saian Mountains of Inner Asia. Victoria Soyan Peemot herself grew up in …

Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, …

Emmanuel Levinas s philosophical work on the Other offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the secrecy of …

Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, …

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive transaction in parenthood. It examines the …

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on …