Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth c...

Why do humans live with gods, spirits, and ancestors? Metapersons reveals how transcendence is no...

First published fifty years ago, Emile Benveniste's two-volume Problemes de linguistique generale...

Discovers how language, culture, and place shape knowledge across the Andes and Western Amazon.

From pets to prey to food, the hierarchy of animals' relationship to humans has profound anthropo...

A unique ethnography of Sinja, a rural valley in northwest Nepal, and the cross-cultural ramifica...

In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascinati...

Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi's The Chimera Principle brea...

Marcel Mauss famous 'Essay on the Gift' has now returned to its original context. For the first t...

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn...

This volume is the first to collect the most influential essays and lectures of Eduardo Viveiros ...

First published in 1982, Christopher A. Gregory s 'Gifts and commodities' is one of the undispute...

A groundbreaking study that rethinks the origins of writing, revealing how Native American ritual...

In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's 'Golden Bough,' published posthu...

'A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researc...

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

A pathbreaking study of Yagwoia cosmological concepts.In Imacoqwa's Arrow, Jadran Mimica draws on...

'For people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place ...

A lively exploration of the Indigenous traditions of shamanism in the Far North of Eurasia and No...

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

A new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues.

Examining social constructions and perceptions of nature.

A new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's influential ethnography of a village in Dominica.Over t...

Seeks to better understand the nature of corruption through a case study of a rural Brazilian com...