The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writin...

Explains how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larg...

Offers a re-evaluation of the role of the exotic in anthropology.Introduces the notion of counter...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuou...

It is a critical view of a new methodological and epistemological fashion in anthropologyIt is a ...

Liminality: the state of being 'betwixt and between' is one of anthropology's most influential co...

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...

As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasi...

This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical p...

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contri...

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt b...

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performan...

Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center ...

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily s...

Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about t...

The territorially sovereign nation-state – the globally dominant political formation of Western m...

Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about t...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuou...

The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficu...

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitut...

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new k...

In this pamphlet, the renowned anthropologist Bruce Kapferer revists Stanley Kubrick s classic fi...