The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective ...

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, Two Lenins is the first book-length anthropological...

When Emily Martin delivered the annual Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester...

This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros ...

For the Ankave of Papua New Guinea, men, unlike women, do not reach adulthood and become fathers ...

This book traces the contributions of the Levy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and e...

In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of s...

Not since Clifford Geertz's "e;Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight"e; has the publ...

In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives...

Cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar. Fernand...

Since its publication in 1969, Emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire-here in a new translation as the Di...