Recent findings in neuroscience have shown differential patterns in brain activity in
response to similar stimuli and activities across cultural and social differences. This calls for …

Studies of the relationship between religion and science have traditionally assumed that any
conflict that exists is based on epistemology. This assumption is built into the history of …

In the 1980s, anthropology set aside a focus on societies defined as radically 'other'to the
anthropologists' own. There was little consensus at the time, however, about who might …

Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's “fresh... fascinating...
thought-provoking... and exceedingly timely”(Financial Times) history of debt Here …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

The idea of moral economy has been increasingly popular in the social sciences over the
past decade, given a confusing variety of meanings and sometimes invoked as an empty …

Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas
and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore …

For almost a century, economic anthropology has formed a fairly coherent field at the
interface between sociocultural anthropology and economics. Many anthropologists are …

Desire is the motivating force behind much of contemporary consumption. Yet consumer
research has devoted little specific attention to passionate and fanciful consumer desire …

Originally published in 2004 in the Common Knowledge symposium “Talking Peace with
Gods,” this article elaborates the nature and consequences of the perspectivist cosmologies …