Anthropologists have sustained a varied and active engagement with ethics throughout the
field's history. In light of this long-standing engagement, what marks the distinctiveness of …

This article is positioned at the intersection of linguistic, medical, and psychological
anthropology and reviews scholarship on the communicative processes that constitute …

Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the
anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families …

To witness war is, in large part, to hear it. And to survive it is, among other things, to have
listened to it--and to have listened through it. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and …

An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-
west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long …

Material things and phenomena have come to vie with belief and thought as worthy subjects
of inquiry in the interdisciplinary study of religion. Yet, to the extent that we are justified in …

Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular
Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism …

Cultural psychiatry aims to understand the implications of cultural diversity for
psychopathology, illness experience, and intervention. The emerging paradigms of …

There has been a recent call for an anthropology of morality and a challenge to
anthropologists that they have been insufficiently attentive to moral aspects of social life. The …

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises,
severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and …