Social- & kulturantropologi

A short, thoughtful introduction to traditional Chinese medicine that looks beyond the conventional boundaries of Western biomedical science Traditional Chinese medicine is often …

“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White’s California Exposures.”—Kirkus Reviews  Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was …

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.   From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating …

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession …

In a twenty-first-century global economy, in which multinational companies coordinate and collaborate with partners and clientele around the world, it is usually English that is …

In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas as his …

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants—from the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands to the Sahara, images of danger depict a new world …

What compels a person to strap a vest loaded with explosives onto his body and blow himself up in a crowded street? Scholars have answered this question by focusing on the …

This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the …

A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world  “An epic work of breathtaking scope and moral …