Social science / Anthropology

Museum Basics

von Timothy Ambrose & Crispin Paine

Fully updated and extended to examine the many changes that have occurred in the last decade, this second edition of world-renowned text Museum Basics provides a basic guide to all aspects of museum work and...

Politics of Culture in Iran

von Nematollah Fazeli

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture...

Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism

von Helena Ragone

Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood charts new territory by exploring the notion of motherhood for women of differing classes, races, religions and nations in the light of various strategies and new technologies...

The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective

von Anthony Oliver-Smith & Susanna Hoffman

This work takes a close look at disasters and the response of victims in the immediate aftermath and over the long-run. It demonstrates how disasters arise from human propensity to take risks which make them...

The Dark Side of Humanity

von Robert Parking

Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered....

Resplendent Sites:Discor Voice

von Crick

The focus of the book shifts from global and comparative concerns to the political, economic and cultural contest of national policy formation, investigates the regional story of tourism growth in Kandy, and...

Essays on the History of British Anthropology

von J, Urry

From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated...

Colonial Space

von Noyes

Noyes demonstrates the agency of literature in the structuring of colonial space using a series of colonial texts from German South West Africa in the period 1884-1915. The social production of space in colonialization...

Structure and Process in Malan Society

von Carrier

Through its analysis of a Melanesian society (Ponam) and the ways it has changed in the 20th century, this book addresses the relationship between the concern with the structure and logic of social organization,...

The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans and Repatriation

von Tamara Bray

To date, the notion of repatriation has been formulated as a highly polarized debate with museums, archaeologists, and anthropologists on one side, and Native Americans on the other. This volume offers both...

The Native Tribes of South West Africa

von L. Fourie, C.H. Hahn & V. Vedder

This text includes short sketches of each of the principal tribes of South-West Africa, showing their state of development, their mode of living and how they differ from each other.

Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad: Anthropological Perspectives

von Hirochika Nakamaki

In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese...

Four Hundred Million Cust

von Crow

"No matter what you may be selling, your business in China should be enormous, if the Chinese who should buy your goods would only do so." But will they?. "400 Million Customers" is essential reading for all...

Bedouin Justice

von Kennett

Published in 1925, this is an absolute gem of a book. From the author's preface: "In the following chapters I have tried, by quoting lawsuits of all kinds, and explaining the means employed to dispose of them,...

War & Peace In The Sudan

von Khalid

Sudan has been at war with itself for the last forty years, except for a ten-year period of peace from 1972 to 1983. This book traces the root causes of the Sudanese conflict: the remnants of slave culture and...

Western Mysticism

von Butler

A renewed interest in the spiritual, with an increasing number of people today wishing to incorporate the contemplative in their active lives, prompts the reissue of this classic work, a doctrine that is at...

Difference & Modernity

von Clammer

This book examines the relevance of some major aspects and assumptions of contemporary social and cultural theory to one society that has a very different history and conception of its self-identity from the...

Zapuphizo

von Steyn

A central figure in the turbulent recent history of the region, Zapuphizo was the mastermind behind the Nagas' Demand for sovereign independence in 1947, the year when the British government transferred control...

Saigo Takamori - The Man Behind

von Yates

This is the first real biography, in English or Japanese, of Saigo Takamori - "the last Samurai" - the great hero of Meiji Japan. It is impossible to over-estimate Saigo's importance, both during the pivotal...

Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture

von Nicholas Mirzoeff

Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media.

Mirzoeff shows how the endless stream...