The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.
Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship …

In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and
ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear …

La gran mayoría de la población mundial vive en un amplio, accidentado archipiélago que
podemos denominar genéricamente “atraso económico”. Abordaremos este tema desde la …

Why do people destroy objects and materials that are important to them? This book aims to
make sense of this fascinating, yet puzzling social practice by focusing on a period in history …

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether
written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where …

Preface vi peer-reviewers. For all its emphasis on things–redressing a long-lost balance–
this volume emphatically does not deny the essential contribution of human agency. Our …

This special issue, which includes articles on Sierra Leone, Peru, Estonia, Hungary, Norway,
the Philippines, Britain and Melanesia, presents some of the salient features of the …

The likes of Zygmunt Bauman will never be found in the world of academia again. He is one
of that generation of Central and European intellectuals who literally lived through the …

This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the
anthropological figure of the 'trickster'. A lesser known and much more recent term than evil …