In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weav...

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A classic text that develops one prong of Dumezil's tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes...

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that soci...

Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also...

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of...

I Remaking a World I completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recove...

Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, ...

Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, ...

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming co...

An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than...