The first anthropological monograph published on the Vula'a people of south-eastern Papua New Gui...

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The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficu...

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This impressive work of scholarship brings together anthropology, religion, popular culture, and ...

This collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Urgent Anthropology ...

The importance and ramifications of saints, sainthood and pilgrimage in contemporary Iran and nei...

This rich account of potters in a southern Catalan village traces the history of pottery producti...

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