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A stirring memoir of exile and self-discovery by a central figure in ethno-psychiatry. In To Sit on the Earth, pioneering ethno-psychiatrist Tobie Nathan charts his intellectual and emotional journey, from his youthful infatuation with Freud and Wilhelm...List Price $27.00List Price $27.00
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Reconceptualizes human-animal relationships and their political significance in ancient and modern societies.In Live Stock and Dead Things, Hannah Chazin combines zooarchaeology and anthropology to challenge familiar narratives about the role of nonhuman...List Price $35.00List Price $35.00
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A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers.Michael Taussig’s work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven...List Price $26.00List Price $26.00
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An enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age—from the author of How the Canyon Became GrandFrom a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental history—an exploration of the geologic time...List Price $24.00Our Price $10.50List Price $24.00Our Price $10.50
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Stereotyped as a rather eccentric but generous woman who used her wealth to forward the disciplines of anthropology and folklore and the careers of young scholars, Elsie Clews Parsons was an outspoken feminist, pacifist, and social critic. She shocked...List Price $47.50Our Price $16.99List Price $47.50Our Price $16.99
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Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a...List Price $34.95Our Price $27.99List Price $34.95Our Price $27.99
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In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, and so-called harmful traditional practices did not exist. The documentary radically challenged prevailing...List Price $32.00Our Price $21.99List Price $32.00Our Price $21.99
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Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to "take back" sovereignty. The contributors to this collection use ethnographic research in disputed and exceptional places to study sovereignty claims from the...List Price $31.95Our Price $25.00List Price $31.95Our Price $25.00
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This inaugural volume of The Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition series presents current scholarship from the various academic disciplines that were shaped and continue to be influenced by Franz Boas (1858–1942). Few of Boas’s intellectual progeny span...List Price $75.00Our Price $20.00List Price $75.00Our Price $20.00
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Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and...List Price $36.95Our Price $26.99List Price $36.95Our Price $26.99
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Marilyn Strathern takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society--anthropologists using relationships to uncover relationships. The role of relations in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific revolution onwards, raises a...List Price $29.99Our Price $22.50List Price $29.99Our Price $22.50
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A remarkable investigation into the hominoids of Flores Island, their place on the evolutionary spectrum—and whether or not they still survive.While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across...List Price $14.99List Price $14.99
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully...List Price $29.95Our Price $17.50List Price $29.95Our Price $17.50
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