Fully updated fifth edition of the classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology

Climate change has meant that the future of the Arctic is important to the future of the world. T...

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, chan...

Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual...

Explicitly comparative in its approach, Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition discusses central issue...

Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of th...

Focusing on the Sápmi region of Northern Europe as a point of departure, this book enriches and s...

Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and...

Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unf...

The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature...

Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoid...

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world's population is connected thr...