A groundbreaking study that rethinks the origins of writing, revealing how Native American ritual...

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...

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

A personal odyssey and a portrait of a distinguished anthropologist in practice--a life shaped by...

Why do humans live with gods, spirits, and ancestors? Metapersons reveals how transcendence is no...

Discovers how language, culture, and place shape knowledge across the Andes and Western Amazon.

In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives...

This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial...

The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective ...

For the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea, womba is a malignant power with the potential t...

Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space...