Berghahn Series

WYSE Series in Social Anthropology

Editors:
James Laidlaw, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge,, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Social Anthropology is a vibrant discipline of relevance to many areas – economics, politics, religion, science, business, humanities, health and public policy. This series, published in association with the Cambridge Department of Social Anthropology but open to all scholars, focuses on key interventions in Social Anthropology, based on innovative theory and research of relevance to contemporary social issues and debates.

• Volume 15
  

  An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

  Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

  Edited by Jacob Copeman, Nicholas J. Long, Lam Minh Chau, Joanna Cook, and Magnus Marsden

  Published: 2023
  
• Volume 14
  

  Against Better Judgment

  Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

  Edited by Patrick McKearney and Nicholas H. A. Evans

  Published: 2023
  
• Volume 13
  

  New Perspectives on Moral Change

  Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

  Edited by Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen

  Published: 2022
  
• Volume 12
  

  Where is the Good in the World?

  Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

  Edited by David Henig, Anna Strhan and Joel Robbins

  Published: 2022
  
• Volume 11
  

  Making Better Lives

  Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

  Johannes Lenhard

  Published: 2022
  
• Volume 10
  

  Selfishness and Selflessness

  New Approaches to Understanding Morality

  Edited by Linda L. Layne

  Published: 2020
  
• Volume 9
  

  Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

  John Fahy

  Published: 2019
  
• Volume 8
  

  It Happens Among People

  Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

  Edited by Keping Wu and Robert P. Weller
  Afterword by Ulf Hannerz

  Published: 2019
  
• Volume 7
  

  Indeterminacy

  Waste, Value, and the Imagination

  Edited by Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez
  Afterword by Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky

  Published: 2018
  
• Volume 6
  

  After Difference

  Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

  Paolo Heywood

  Published: 2018
  
• Volume 5
  

  Moral Engines

  Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life

  Edited by Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, Maria Louw, and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

  Published: 2017
  
• Volume 4
  

  The Patient Multiple

  An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

  Jonathan Taee

  Published: 2017
  
• Volume 3
  

  The State We're In

  Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

  Edited by Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, and Henrietta L. Moore

  Published: 2016
  
• Volume 2
  

  The Social Life of Achievement

  Edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta Moore

  Published: 2013
  
• Volume 1
  

  Sociality

  New Directions

  Edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore

  Published: 2012