Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous...

What is-and what was-'the world'? Though often treated as interchangeable with the ongoing and in...

Ethnographies of Power

Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju 'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Bi...

'Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which...

A radical and innovative Shakespeare criticism emerged in Britain in the 1980s, thanks largely to...

A radical and innovative Shakespeare criticism emerged in Britain in the 1980s, thanks largely to...

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensio...

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a drama...

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to t...

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more genera...

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of un...