In The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, William M. Reddy
offers a theory of emotions which both critiques and expands upon recent research in the …

Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas
and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore …

Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from
fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological …

Taking its inspiration from the thought and action of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, this essay proposes
a comparative analysis of" articulated sites of indigeneity." It explores the advantages and …

Although gossip is disapproved of across the world's societies, it is a prominent feature of
sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In …

Times aren't what they used to be. Twenty-five years ago," history" was just beginning to
emerge from anthropology's margins. It now lies much closer to the center of both the …

Narrative is a fundamental human way of giving meaning to experience. In both telling and
interpreting experiences, narrative mediates between an inner world of thought-feeling and …

We examine Kwara'ae (Solomon Islands) indigenous epistemology and indigenous critical
praxis, including sources of knowledge and strategies for validating and critiquing evidence …

Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that
suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a …

In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and
psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we …