Bücher der Reihe Explorations in Anthropology

Aims to offer an up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research, with a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. The book is intended for students of social anthropology.

Offers a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft - the context of illness explanations; and an examination of theoretical issues in anthropology - postmodernism and dialogue.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

A study of contemporary flamenco music as a multi-dimensional movement of popular culture. Although portrayed as an apolitical, frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have influenced the Franco regime. This text explores flamenco in its social, cultural and historical context.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines urban migrants and rural lives in Peru.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines such topics as carnival in a rural town; a round of criticism; social problems in the repertoire of Los Llorones; the rivalry; a country poet; and old and new voices.

Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.

This study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities, and processes of cultural transformation.

Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, this text explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed.