Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypes, language and more, this book includes stories and anecdotes that provide a portrait of the English nation and its people.

More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. This work surveys life-cycle, culture, sexuality and destructive urges both towards ourselves and the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins.

An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.

Presents a fresh perspective that helps us understand the damaged social relations that incubate racial and sexual discrimination.

This book is devoted to the study of children's skeletons from archaeological and forensic contexts.

This book employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's lives in the era of twenty-first century globalization. The authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they face such as poverty, managing single mother-headed households, and violence.

An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.

What happens when citizens are refashioned as consumers? Drawing on diverse disciplines and ethnographies from five continents, this collection considers neoliberal reform from the standpoint of people's self-understandings as social and political actors.

Offers a summary of the questions and the minefield of academic politics that surround questioning anthropology's most cherished paradigms. This title is suitable for students in human origins or biological anthropology courses.

Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia focuses uniquely on the physical remains of the prehistoric peoples of this region.

Presenting a story of Monterey Park, this book shows how long-time residents and new immigrants deal with commonality and diversity. It offers an account of immigration and change: the decline of the loyal old-boy Anglo network; the rise of women, minorities, and immigrants in politics; and a transformation of ethnic and American identities.

Includes contributions that reveal an ethnographic perspective on organizations and organizational research. This title explores the particular problems faced by organizational ethnographers, including: questions of gaining access to research sites within organizations; the many styles of writing organizational ethnography; and, ethical issues.

Through sixty-one essays based on sojourns in Europe, West Africa, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking the author's cue from Wallace Stevens' late poem, Of Mere Being , this title explores a range of experiences where 'the palm at the end of the mind' stands 'beyond thought', on 'the edge of space', 'a foreign song'.

An examination of the evolution of human behaviour from the viewpoints of anthropology, archaeology, biology, and technology. It focuses on the problems of trying to understand the long-term evolution of human behaviour and the patterns observable in the fossil and archaeological record.

The third volume of the definitive publication of the remains of early man found at Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania.

Offers both historical and contemporary articles that demonstrate the nature of biological anthropology. Focusing on living populations, this book covers a range of bioanthropological studies: evolution, nonhuman primates, human paleontology, and modern human groups.

Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a special place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, writers reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric times to its present and uncerta

The final volume in a series which has documented the finds of one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world.