This review offers a critical mappingo f the construction-in-progress of refugees and
displacement as an anthropological domain of knowledge. It situates the emergence of “the …

This article traces the contours of a comparative, global, cross-disciplinary, and
multiparadigmatic field that construes ethnicity, race, and nationhood as a single integrated …

In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention
from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to …

This series aims to overcome the current fragmented nature of the study of food by
encouraging interdisciplinary studies of food and serving as a meeting place for a diverse …

" With Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson has once more made an important
contribution to the reconstruction of anthropology. His own vivid ethnography of urban lives …

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading
texts on the subject worldwide in its 1st edition. Now substantially revised and updated …

“Deborah A. Thomas's Exceptional Violence is at once methodologically astute, richly
researched, and critically engaged. In reframing the historical object of violence in Jamaica …

The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous
and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the …

The global triumph of capitalism at the millennium, its Second Coming, raises a number of
conundrums for our understanding of history at the end of the century. Some of its corollaries …

In this chapter, the author addresses related questions that have arisen in an ongoing series
of writings about global cultural flows. Although they broadly inform his response to these …