Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.
Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral... Læs mere
German Division as Shared Experience shows the extent to which the story of East and West Germany was one of... Læs mere
Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.
This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.
Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such... Læs mere
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This... Læs mere
Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).
The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a... Læs mere
Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume... Læs mere
Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance,... Læs mere