Anthropology

This book uniquely explores clinical psychology and psychoanalysis from a cross-cultural perspective. It covers topics from personality disorders and suicide to cultural emotions and dream interpretation, offering vital insights for psychologists and culture enthusiasts alike.

This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.

This is the first volume to engage with material culture in the Tricontinent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It interrogates how objects trace an alternate history, subverting Eurocentric formulations to arrive at a uniquely Tricontinental model of material culture studies.

This vibrant, inter-disciplinary collection of essays maps food cultures and routes in fiction. Analyzing authors from countries as diverse as Ireland, Romania, the UK, and the USA, it explores the interconnections between food, fiction, and culture.

This 15-year study destroys the clichés of creative processes and inaugurates a reflective sociology on serendipity. By surveying 200 techniques, it presents common meta-rules of opposition, combination, and separation that determine creative behavior.

A Siberian indigenous poet, reindeer herder, and activist chose to live in the forest, where he fought an oil giant to save his way of life. These essays explore his native spirituality, his struggle, and a new vision for indigenous leadership in post-Soviet Russia.