Fysisk antropologi & etnografi

First published in 1997. The rise of new religious movements has raised important questions about how race, ethnicity and the lives of black minority commu-nities in the West are …

The articles included in this volume were all presented at the 15th annual British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) conference held at the …

In its assessment of the current "e;state of play"e; of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and …

The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious-or more fraught with paradox-than in the burgeoning realm of genetics. A …

Western societies draw crucially on concepts of the 'individual' in constructing their images of the ethnic group and nation and define these in terms of difference. This study …

Initially published in 1953, The Chinese of Sarawak, A Study of Social Structure, is the study of the social, economic and political organization of the Chinese Community during …

Das Jahrbuch widmet sich dem zentralen anthropologischen Thema „Wahrnehmung“.  Im Fokus der Diskussion steht der Beitrag von Georg Toepfer zu deren Biologie und Anthropologie und …

The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The …

Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation …

The building of Egypt’s High Dam in the 1960s erased innumerable historic treasures, but it also forever obliterated the ancient land of a living people, the Nubians. In 1963–64, …