From 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Luj...

Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chine...

First published fifty years ago, Émile Benveniste's two-volume Problèmes de linguistique générale...

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

The first book to explore the deaths of explorer Jules Crevaux and his crew from an Indigenous pe...

The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838-1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circl...

''The Mafia? What is the Mafia? Something you eat? Something you drink? I don't know the Mafia. I...

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Through a rich narrative ethnography of domestic life, this book explores the philosophy of socia...

'The present volume stems from a workshop that the editors organized at the Needham Research Inst...

Nullius is an anthropological account of the troubled status of ownership in India and its conseq...

In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the c...