Anthropology

A new look at a brilliant radical legacy

Fully updated fifth edition of the classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology

Climate change has meant that the future of the Arctic is important to the future of the world. This book is a glimpse into the changes affecting a community within the Arctic circle.

An anthropological study of the impact of cash grants on the economic dynamics and relationships among Kenya's urban poor

A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labour struggles and workers' political agency

Stories of smuggling as acts of resistance and decolonisation

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons

A critique of the global emphasis on water’s economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in Peru

A comparative ethnography of the responses on the ground to austerity policies in Southern Europe

Based on over ten years experience working in the industry, this is an expose of the gambling business

How our political and legal systems criminalise protesters