Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other.
Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian... Læs mere
Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European... Læs mere
By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people... Læs mere
This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the... Læs mere
Germany’s leading role in EU economic policy following the 2008 financial crisis is in a sense only the latest step in a long history of attempts at political... Læs mere
This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is... Læs mere
Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies.... Læs mere
In the dictatorships of the twentieth century, historians have frequently been exiled from both... Læs mere
This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.
Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased... Læs mere