Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Cent...

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the wri...

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it consti...

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of ne...

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the contin...

Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense l...

The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easil...

This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The con...

As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasi...

Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challe...

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the ''moral turn'', is gaining popul...

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibi...