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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...