As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume ...

On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more - a form of social ...

The work of Louis Dumont, who died in 1998, on India and modern individualism represented certain theoretical advances on the earlier structuralism ...

Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. ...

Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the ...

Research on pilgrimage has traditionally fallen across a series of academic disciplines - anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, history ...

The people of Vassilikos, farmers and tourist entrepreneurs on the Greek island of Zakynthos, are involved in a bitter environmental dispute concerning ...

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the "storm and stress" period of adolescence. This conception is ...

Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series ...

In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria ...