The essays in this collection detail the fate of gypsies in the countries of Eastern Europe through the socialist era, and pay special attention to the experience of the Nazi holocaust. The volume includes essays on Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary and Romania.
This book provides an essential foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business and global business on culture. The authors demo..
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the ma..
Bringing about a creative dialogue between the anthropologist’s own experience of magical consciousness and theoretical analysis, this book is a poly-..
Who exactly is in debt - and what is inside it? Authors from many disciplines come together in this volume to ask about the ways in which debt is shar..
This book examines various aspects of San and Khoe representation, in the sense of both representation of the Khoe and San by others, including academ..
This book focuses on the contribution of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) to social theory and a theory of cooperation. It shows that Mauss’s essay "The Gift"..
The Meaning of Horses examines the engagements and entanglements that link the lived experiences of human and non-human animals. The contributors disc..
Halal production, trade, and standards have become essential to state-regulated Islam and to companies in Malaysia and Singapore, giving these two cou..
For junior/senior courses in Human Evolution and Paleoanthropology in Anthropology departments.This text, the only one of its kind on the market, surv..
Focusing on the lives and works of eminent figures such as Levi and Nietzsche, anthropologist Nigel Rappaport shows how we can avoid the structures of..
Peter Metcalf gives an engaging account of his fieldwork in Borneo, telling the story of his tortuous relationship with Kasi, a formidable old lady wh..
This book draws together leading international authorities to survey the history and current practice of Islamic mysticism in North America and Europe..