Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chine...

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

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...

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 study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact ...

Examining social constructions and perceptions of nature.In Wild and Wonderful, social anthropolo...

A study of homelessness and addiction exploring the void of drug-induced blackout and its impact ...

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

An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritua...

The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838-1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circl...