Social & cultural anthropology

"People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily assaults on their dignity. Professional counselor Sheila Wise Rowe exposes the symptoms of racial trauma to lead readers to a place of freedom from the past and new life for the future. With Rowe as a reliable guide who has both b...

When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back t...

When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar tracks its origins back t...

Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive, and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? 'How to Be Animal' writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with b...

In her classic account of primate research, Jane Goodall provides a detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania. Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of ...

One of the government's top behavioural scientists reveals how to survive and - how societies might thrive - in the age of influence.

Five stories with Japanese and English language versions appearing on facing pages.Each story is followed by detailed translator's notes, vocabulary lists, and grammar points along with a set of discussion questions and exercises.

How internet subcultures are conquering the mainstream, from from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right. Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-re...

This is a work about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz in Israel and the deep Canadian Arctic. Grow...

The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. 'The Language Puzzle' explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors ...