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Ibn Khaldun

Rosen, L.

Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond his North African homeland. His holistic approach foreshadowed modern social science, blending direct observation with cultural interpretation. A vital precursor to contemporary anthropology, his insights on solidarity, religion, and society remain relevant today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available Published July 2025
Elsdon Best

Holman, J. P. & Delgado Rosa, F.

This volume is dedicated to the New Zealander ethnographer Elsdon Best (1856-1931) who is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2025
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published March 2024
Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2023
Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2023
Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2025
Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2022
An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published July 2022
Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

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eBook available Published May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published January 2024
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2024
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane.

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eBook available Published November 2025
Moebius Anthropology

Essays on the Forming of Form

Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)

Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published September 2020
Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork

Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.

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eBook available Published November 2022
Bourdieu and Social Space

Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Reed-Danahay, D.

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)

Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published May 2022
Critique of Identity Thinking

Jackson, M.

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published March 2019
Democracy's Paradox

Populism and its Contemporary Crisis

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2020
Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2024
Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)

Who do ‘we’ anthropologists think ‘we’ are? Drawing together reflections and ethnographic case studies, this volume explores how the anthropological ‘we’ has been construed, transformed and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. It interrogates how these constructions have influenced the discipline, and opens spaces in which they might be reimagined.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2021
Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published April 2018
Moral Anthropology

A Critique

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume aims to reconceptualise the discipline of anthropology in a radically critical way.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published July 2022
After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published January 2018
Contrarian Anthropology

The Unwritten Rules of Academia

Nader, L.

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2020
Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, aiming to convey a theoretical and empirical overview of indigeneity in order to investigate the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2020
European Anthropologies

Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)

By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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eBook available Published June 2017
Mary Douglas

Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

6, P. & Richards, P.

This valuable book introduces Mary Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. The authors effectively demonstrate how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2020
The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination

Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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eBook available Published May 2017
Redescribing Relations

Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics

Lebner, A. (ed)

Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2018
Methodologies of Mobility

Ethnography and Experiment

Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published April 2017
Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Reyna, S. P.

Starry Nights formulates something of an un-canon: it critiques postmodernism while devising its own strategy for conducting research. It envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published February 2018
Our Common Denominator

Human Universals Revisited

Antweiler, C.

Against the backdrop of a discipline focused on difference, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of cross-cultural commonalities -- phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies -- for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2018
Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

Evens, T. M. S., Handelman, D. & Roberts, C. (eds)

Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2017
The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Wullf, H. (ed)

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an anthropologist’s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction. This book explores how writing shapes anthropologists and their discipline.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2015
Time and the Field

Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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Published October 2017
Regimes of Ignorance

Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

Dilley, R. & Kirsch, T. G. (eds)

Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2020
Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric

The Texture of Political Action

Hariman, R. & Cintron, R. (eds)

By emphasizing the texture of political action, this volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2017
What Is Existential Anthropology?

Jackson, M. & Piette, A. (eds)

What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2018
Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview

Smith, K., Staples, J. & Rapport, N. (eds)

The interview creates a context of interaction with a particular authenticity to experience. Contributors explore how the interview is experienced as a particular kind of knowing within which personal, biographic, and social norms are explored and interrogated, providing direction and awareness for future encounters.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2018
Thinking Through Sociality

An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts

Amit, V. (ed)

Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of older, classical theories of sociality with more recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of topics. Contributors focus on key concepts of sociality — disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network — and how these can be used to think through ethnographic situations.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2017
Anthropology & Philosophy

Dialogues on Trust and Hope

Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2016
Anthropology and Nostalgia

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Anthropologists are realizing that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of identity, politics and history making. Contributors to this volume explore nostalgic narratives and practices in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2013
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

A Critical Synthesis

Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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eBook available Published July 2015
Ethics in the Field

Contemporary Challenges

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2015
Up Close and Personal

On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Shore, C. & Trnka, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2015
Debating Authenticity

Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

Fillitz, T. & Saris, A. J. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2014
Sociality

New Directions

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2014
Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2014
A Durkheimian Quest

Solidarity and the Sacred

Watts Miller, W.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2014
Anyone

The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2014
The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Dousset, L. & Tcherkézoff, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published December 2011
War, Technology, Anthropology

Stroeken, K. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2011
The Challenge of Epistemology

Anthropological Perspectives

Toren, C. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published April 2011
Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published December 2010
Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2010
Theorising Media and Practice

Bräuchler, B. & Postill, J. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2010
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

A Critical Stance

Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published November 2010
Security and Development

McNeish, J.-A. & Sande Lie, J. H. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2010
Contemporary Religiosities

Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State

Kapferer, B., Telle, K. & Eriksen, A. (Eds.)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2012
Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Gressgård, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2013
The Ethnographic Self as Resource

Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

Collins, P. & Gallinat, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2013
Beyond Writing Culture

Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices

Zenker, O. & Kumoll, K. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published March 2013
Human Nature as Capacity

Transcending Discourse and Classification

Rapport, N. (ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2011
Ethnographic Practice in the Present

Melhuus, M., Mitchell, J., & Wulff, H. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Deleuzian Intersections

Science, Technology, Anthropology

Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2013
The Anthropology of Moralities

Heintz, M. (Ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Culture and Rhetoric

Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2012
Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, S. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published July 2012
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Carrithers, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published November 2010
Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

Kirby, P. W. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2010
Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2012
Suffering and Evil

The Durkheimian Legacy

Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2008
An Anthropology of War

Views from the Frontline

Waterston, A. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published January 2010
Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2010
How Enemies Are Made

Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Schlee, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2009
Anthropology as Ethics

Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

Evens, T. M. S.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published September 2012
Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2008
Knowing How to Know

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Halstead, N., Hirsch, E., & Okely, J. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published August 2010
Difficult Folk?

A Political History of Social Anthropology

Mills, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
Published September 2009
Culture and the Changing Environment

Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Casimir, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2010
Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Boškovic, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published March 2011
The Practice of War

Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Rao, A., Bollig, M. & Böck, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published September 2009
The Manual of Ethnography

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2009
A History of Oxford Anthropology

Rivière, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

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eBook available Published June 2011
Holistic Anthropology

Emergence and Convergence

Parkin, D. & Ulijaszek, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published October 2008
Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published September 2007
The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’

Nonini, D. M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published August 2007
The European Puzzle

The Political Structuring of Cultural Identities at a Time of Transition

Demossier, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2008
Rethinking Migration

New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2007
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Mimica, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2007
Identity Matters

Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict

Peacock, J. M., Thornton, P. M., and Inman, P. B. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Peace and Conflict Studies

Pb
Published March 2007
Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published February 2007
Identifying with Freedom

Indonesia after Suharto

Day, T (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published September 2006
The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

Evens, T. M. S. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published August 2006
Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Perspectives from Social Anthropology

Gingrich, A. & Banks, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published May 2006
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition

Baca, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published May 2006
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

Dumont, L.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published June 2020
Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published March 2006
The Politics of Egalitarianism

Theory and Practice

Solway, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published March 2008
The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ellen, R.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2005
Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Marcus, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology

Pb
Published November 2005
Development-induced Displacement

Problems, Policies and People

de Wet, Chris (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 2006
Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology

Bertelsen, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published October 2005
On the Order of Chaos

Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

Mosko, M. S. & Damon, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender

Shaw, A. & Ardener, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published September 2005
The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published August 2005
Oligarchs and Oligopolies

New Formations of Global Power

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2005
The World Ahead

An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published June 2005
Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

Jackson, M.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2006
Critical Junctions

Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn

Kalb, D. & Tak, H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published April 2020
The Nature of Sociology

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published January 2005
Ritual in Its Own Right

Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Handelman, D. & Lindquist, G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 2005
Grammars of Identity / Alterity

A Structural Approach

Baumann, G. & Gingrich, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 2004
The World Trade Center and Global Crisis

Some Critical Perspectives

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published January 2004
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Yamashita, S., Bosco, J., & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 2004
State, Sovereignty, War

Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2004
Globalization

Some Critical Issues

Chun, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2004
Corporate Scandal

Global Corporatism against Society

Gledhill, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published February 2004
Researching Food Habits

Methods and Problems

Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published November 2003
Illness and Irony

On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2004
Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

Pb
Published October 2003
An Invitation to Anthropology

The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies

Llobera, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 2005
Anthropology & Law

Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published October 2004
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Dracklé, D., Edgar, I. R. & Schippers, T. K. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published March 2009
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published February 2003
Beyond Rationalism

Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published October 2002
Montesquieu

His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2003
Durkheim Today

Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2002
Tourism

Between Place and Performance

Coleman, S. & Crang, M. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 2001
Themes in French Culture

A Preface to a Study of French Community

Mead, M. & Metraux, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published January 2001
Hunting the Gatherers

Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

O'Hanlon, M. & Welsch, R. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Theory and Methodology Colonial History Heritage Studies

Pb
Published December 2000
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published October 2000
Anthropologists in a Wider World

Essays on Field Research

Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance

Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published July 2000
And Keep Your Powder Dry

An Anthropologist Looks at America

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 1999
Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published November 1999
Essay on Time

A Brief Study of the Representation of Time in Religion and Magic

Hubert, H.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1999
Taboo, Truth and Religion

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published October 1999
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1999
The Problem of Context

Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere

Dilley, R. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life

An Ethnographic Approach

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 1998
Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published December 1998
Engendering Forced Migration

Theory and Practice

Indra, D. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1998
Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Handelman, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published September 1996
Understanding Impoverishment

The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement

McDowell, C. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb

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Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Moebius Anthropology

Essays on the Forming of Form

Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork

Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Bourdieu and Social Space

Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Reed-Danahay, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology

Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Critique of Identity Thinking

Jackson, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Democracy's Paradox