This review examines the social, economic, and political effects of environmental
conservation projects as they are manifested in protected areas. We pay special attention to …

Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide
adequate supplies of clean water to all people becomes more challenging. Anthropologists …

What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in
common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim …

Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds
usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond …

This book provides an essential insight into the practices and ideas of maps and map-
making. It draws on a wide range of social theorists, and theorists of maps and cartography …

What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist
Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers …

Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting
questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S …

Seawater has occupied an ambiguous place in anthropological categories of “nature” and
“culture.” Seawater as nature appears as potentiality of form and uncontainable flux; it …

European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and
entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule …

One of the remarkable transformati-ons of the conservation community in recent years has
been the proliferation of sociocultural anthropologists in and around protected areas and in …