Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Alban…
"Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Alba…
"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for peop…
The handbook of sociocultural anthropology
'The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology' presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future. It will provide a source of authoritative, critical descriptions of all the key aspects of the discipline as well as a consi…
This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's Afri…
In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught …
"Suppose you were given two qualitative studies and were told that one of them is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. What criteria would you use to tell the difference? Each of the hundreds of ethnograph…
Om sociologens vigtige balancegang mellem forskningsfrihed og hensyn til de mennesker, der studeres.
Ethnography and qualitative research methodology in general have witnessed a staggering proliferation of styles and genres over the last three decades. Modes and channels of communication have similarly expanded and diversified. Now ethnographers have the opportunity to dissemin…
