Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth c...

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A unique ethnography of Sinja, a rural valley in northwest Nepal, and the cross-cultural ramifica...

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'A synthesis of ethnographic theory and psychoanalytic revelation, where the line between researc...

A new theory of relational ethics that tackles contemporary issues.

A lively exploration of the Indigenous traditions of shamanism in the Far North of Eurasia and No...

Marcel Mauss famous 'Essay on the Gift' has now returned to its original context. For the first t...

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn...