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.
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Volume 17
Esther Newcomb Goody Revisited
Engaging with the Legacy of an Original Interdisciplinarian
Edited by Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman, Mary Goody
Published: 2025 -
Volume 16
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity
Susan Bayly
Published: 2024 -
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
Published: 2019
Afterword by Ulf Hannerz -
Volume 7
Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Edited by Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez
Published: 2018
Afterword by Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky -
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