Existential Narratives from the Nepalese Himalayas By Samuele Poletti Based on more than a decade of research, Being, Made is an exploration of how personhood is articulated among Hindus in Sinja, and how this is being transformed by the gr…
Ritual, History, and Hierarchy in Madagascar By Maurizio Esposito la Rossa Foreword by Michael Lambek In a postcolonial republic marked by recurrent crises, royal hierarchy continues to frame social inequalities. Within this context, both t…
Hunting, Modernity, and the Crisis of the Wild By Charles Stépanoff Translated by Nora Scott Modernity has divided animals into two categories: those deemed worthy of protection and affection, and those reduced to raw material for industry.…
Anthropology strives to be the science of human diversity, and yet vast archives of non-Anglophone scholarship remain sequestered behind prohibitive linguistic and financial barriers, turning the global discipline into an Anglo-centric silo…
What does it mean to know, and how is knowledge practiced? How can Indigenous perspectives challenge conventional concepts of knowledge in the Global North? Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies from the Andes and Western Amazon, Southern Ep…
How does the youngest of eight children, raised on a family farm in northern Wisconsin by parents with only half a grammar school education, become an Ivy League professor and a witness to some of the most transformative events of the late
Metapersons begins from a simple yet striking observation: across the world, people live in the company of divinities, ancestors, spirits, sacred mountains, or enlivened statues. They pray with intensity, sense the presence of ghosts, and e…
Edited by Nathan Schlanger Translated by Nils F. Schott A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-c…
An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency shows through rich ethnographic analysis how Mande people in West Africa resort to multiple ritual practices to addre…
With a new Introduction by Ryan Cecil Jobson and afterword by Schuyler Esprit A new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s influential ethnography of a village in Dominica. Over thirty-five years ago, Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s debut ethnography…
With a Foreword by Philippe Descola Translated by Matthew H. Evans Journeys into the Invisible is a lively exploration of the traditions of shamanism in the Far North of Eurasia and North America. Charles Stépanoff draws on ethnographic lit…
In Wild and Wonderful, social anthropologist Vanessa Manceron investigates an understudied but indispensable scientific practice: getting to know and recognize the living worlds around us. Her research takes her to England, where a longstan…