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Contemporary Anthropologies of the Arts in China

Edited By: Aimin Yan, Luo Yifei

From £30.99

This is the first overview of the anthropology of art in China for the English-speaking world. As the country experiences rapid social change, leading Chinese scholars present exciting case studies and distinctive theories on visual art, dance, and music.

Cosmologies of Suffering

Post-communist Transformation, Sacral Communication, and Healing

Edited By: Agita Lūse

£34.99

This volume explores the permanent ‘transition’ and persistent social suffering in post-communist countries. Ethnographic accounts reveal how people cope with trauma by relinquishing reliance on the self and turning towards a higher power.

Cultural Encounters Between East and West

Edited By: Matthew Birchwood, Matthew Dimmock

£39.99

A radical reappraisal of the relationship between East and West. This inter-disciplinary volume refutes Euro-centric assumptions, exploring the complex cultural, diplomatic, mercantile, and military encounters between 1453 and 1699.

Culture and Psyche

Psychological Approaches in Anthropology

By: Simon Dein

From £29.99

This introduction to psychological anthropology offers a critical overview of key topics. It argues that behaviour is not infinitely malleable; while culture impacts psychological processes, these processes are constrained by genetic, biological, and evolutionary factors.

Culture, Identity and Religion in Southeast Asia

Edited By: Alistair D. B. Cook

£29.99

A valuable and timely collection by specialists tackling terrorism, human rights, Islamic radicalism, and identity in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. Highly recommended.

Digital Technologies of the Self

Edited By: Yasmine Abbas, Fred Dervin

£39.99

This book explores how digital technologies contribute to the expression, construction, and enactment of identities. Drawing from various disciplines, it examines the nearly limitless opportunities for staging and transforming the self in our modern world.

Dimensions of Social Exclusion

Ethnographic Explorations

Edited By: Eswarappa Kasi, K. M. Ziyauddin

£39.99

This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.

Dislocating Anthropology?

Bases of Longing and Belonging in the Analysis of Contemporary Societies

Edited By: Simon Coleman, Peter Collins

£34.99

Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.

Dreaming in Auschwitz

The Concentration Camp in the Prisoners' Dreams

By: Wojciech Owczarski

From £32.99

This unique book explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. Based on descriptions written by former Auschwitz inmates, it reveals truths that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable, opening a new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.

Effects of Interpersonal Relationships on Shared Reminiscence

Whose Memory is It?

By: Candice E. Condon

£61.99

Condon documents the results of a research project investigating the effects of interpersonal relationship factors on shared reminiscence, an important endeavour given the limited research measuring the specific interpersonal effects of trust and confidence on memory distortion.

Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations

Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction

Edited By: Per Cornell, Fredrik Fahlander

From £17.99

This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.

Entanglements of Life with the Law

Precarity and Justice in London’s Magistrates’ Courts

By: John R. Campbell

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This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London's magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city's most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.

This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London’s magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city’s most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.

Essays on the History and Culture of the Unknown Calabria

Land of the Forgotten

Edited By: Caterina Pangallo

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Calabria, one of Europe's oldest civilised regions, has suffered from the neglect of its rich cultural legacy. This book directs the world's attention to those immense disregarded riches through essays on its history, arts, intellectual legacy, and its rejuvenation today.

Calabria, one of Europe’s oldest civilised regions, has suffered from the neglect of its rich cultural legacy. This book directs the world’s attention to those immense disregarded riches through essays on its history, arts, intellectual legacy, and its rejuvenation today.

Ethnicity and Englishness

Personal Identities in a Minority Community

By: Ikhlaq Din

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This book explores nationality, groups and religion through the inner lives of second-generation immigrants in England. It analyses the reasons for prejudice between groups and suggests ways to deal with it.

Ethnographic Discourse of the Other

Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Edited By: Eswarappa Kasi, Ramesh C. Malik

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This book explores the 'Other'—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.

This book explores the ‘Other’—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.

Excursions in Realist Anthropology

A Merological Approach

By: David Zeitlyn

£41.99

This book provides a theoretical grounding for the realist accounts anthropologists produce. It argues that incomplete understanding is a strength, not a weakness. This finds a middle ground between positivism and relativism, arguing for moderate realisms.

Feast, Ritual and Daughters among the Newāḥ of Nepal

By: Sipoy Sarveswar

£59.99

This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters' special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.

This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters’ special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.

Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities

12 Points of View

Edited By: Gabriela-Mariana Luca

From £30.99

Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.

From Formal to Non-Formal

Education, Learning and Knowledge

Edited By: Polona Kelava, Igor Ž. Žagar

£44.99

Authors from diverse fields—including sociology, philosophy, and history—explore non-formal education, learning, and knowledge. This diversity of approaches offers new findings and a basis for reflection on the varied dimensions of formal and informal learning.

How do we know? Evidence, Ethnography, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge

Edited By: Liana Chua, Casey High

£34.99

This timely contribution explores the theme of evidence in anthropology. Using diverse case studies, these ethnographically-grounded essays ask: What constitutes viable evidence? Together, they challenge the boundaries of what anthropologists recognise and construct as evidence.