The line between what is regarded by people as "traditional" and "modern" is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine ...

The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups - Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa - provide a valuable case study for the anthropological ...

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the ...

Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over ...

Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the ...

It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation's sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really ...

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different ...

The New Age movement is a twentieth-century socio-cultural phenomenon in the Western world with Glastonbury as one of its major centers. Through experimenting ...

Theodore Hamerow, a prominent historian, was born in Warsaw in 1920 and spent his childhood in Poland and Germany. His parents were members of the best-known ...

Refugees and asylum-seekers are high up on many people's political agenda. Even so, there is a remarkable lack of information. Who are these asylum-seekers? ...