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Body Arts and Modernity
Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this text shows how bodily presentation plays a fundamental role in contemporary …
Anthropology Inside Out
Fieldworkers' notebooks are full of sensations and observations in which the subjectivity of the ethnographer seeps through. Not really science. Much closer to life. Yet in …
Indigenous Modernities in South America
Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity’s fading premodern Other. This volume starts from the opposite assumption, namely that contemporary indigenous peoples …
Reinventing craft in China
How does a craft reinvent itself as `traditional' following cultural, social and political upheaval? In the township of Dingshu, Jiangsu province of China, artisans produce zisha …
Beyond Tradition, Beyond Invention
Offering an alternative to cult-centred accounts, this book looks at the relationships between Afro-Cuban traditions and indeed goes beyond 'traditions' to place the focus on …
Hearing and the Hospital
An original ethnography of sound and listening in one of our major institutions, Hearing and the Hospital reveals the hospital to be a space in which several modes of listening are …
Made in Oceania
Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making, and a potent mobilizing force in diverse grassroots social movements, many of …
Westermarck
Occasional Paper No. 44 of the Royal Anthropological Institute Published in association with the Anglo-Finnish Society Westermarck was a remarkable man, but one who has received …
Pilgrimage and Ambiguity
This books reflects on sites such as shrines, monasteries or a revered mountain, cave or tree, shared by more than one religion in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Brazil. It …
African Americans & American Africans
In America today, two communities with sub-Saharan African genetic origins exist side by side, though they have differing histories and positions within society. This book explores …
Spectral Borders
Based on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding …