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This series focuses on the role that language, in both its universal, psychological aspects and its variable, cultural aspects, plays in human cognition.…
This book series hosts comprehensive, state-of-the-field surveys of key subfields in anthropology.
Books in New Departures in Anthropology focus on emerging themes in social and cultural anthropology. With original perspectives and syntheses, authors…
This series is the major monograph publication outlet of the Faculty of Oriental Studies in the University of Cambridge, which aims to publish important…
The first use of the word 'anthropology' in English was recorded in 1593, but its modern use to indicate the study and science of humanity became current…
The monograph series Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology publishes analytical ethnographies, comparative works and contributions to theory.…
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When Herodotus visited Egypt in the fifth millennium BC, he noted how Egypt was the gift of the Nile, since the fertile black muds that arrived with the annual flood were the foundation of Egyptian agriculture. Beyond its annual flood, the Nile river has …
April 29th
We have heard it a thousand times. The world is going downhill and it’s the “system’s” fault. To save the planet, we must change the “system.” But what do we mean by the “system”? Capitalism? Is it “ca…
January 16th
My inaugural, ghost-written speech to the Niha – learned rote and recited to massed tribesmen over a bloody carpet of pigmeat – ended with the resonant phrase, There is no resentment! It took me a further year of gruelling fieldwork in Nias to…
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