Books in the Explorations in Anthropology series

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines urban migrants and rural lives in Peru.

Integrates developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas.

From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops an interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series and based on extensive fieldwork, this volume addresses a range of subjects of interest to peoples of the Pacific Island nations.

How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

This study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe in Eastern Nepal. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the lives and rituals of the Lohorung.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged.

Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments.

Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, this text explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed.

This study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities, and processes of cultural transformation.

Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines such topics as carnival in a rural town; a round of criticism; social problems in the repertoire of Los Llorones; the rivalry; a country poet; and old and new voices.

Aims to offer an up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research, with a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. The book is intended for students of social anthropology.

A study of contemporary flamenco music as a multi-dimensional movement of popular culture. Although portrayed as an apolitical, frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have influenced the Franco regime. This text explores flamenco in its social, cultural and historical context.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

Offers a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft - the context of illness explanations; and an examination of theoretical issues in anthropology - postmodernism and dialogue.

An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think development entails and how those people affected understand the ensuing processes.

Challenges many of our assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers perspectives that will inform the development of a political economy. In this book the importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and an analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of commodities emerges.

An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

Exploring modernity from an ethnographic perspective, the book focuses on Trinidad - a society which has suffered social rupture through slavery and indentured labour. It discusses mass consumption, and the use of goods and imported images to express and develop contradictions of modernity.

This text reviews the concepts of "nature", both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organized around three themes: nature as a cultural construction; the cultural management of the environment; and relations between plants, animals and humans.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies.

Talks about complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.