Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse:
Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth …

Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can
androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of …

The environment is widely recognised to be in peril, with clear signs of a climate crisis. This
situation has many dimensions and factors, but key among them are the often-destructive …

Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and
neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland's 2008 financial collapse was the first …

There is a broad set of human beliefs, attitudes and behaviours around the issue of magical
animals, referring to both mythical animals not recognized by science and extant animals …

Why hasn't polygamous marriage died out in African cities, as experts once expected it
would? Enduring Polygamy considers this question in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities …

Utopia (οὐ and τόπος) fundamentally relates to a fictional society (More, 1516), an escapist
world and unreal space (Podoshen, Venkatesh, & Jin, 2014). Foucault distinguishes spaces …

This article examines Estonian folklore about ghosts in generic, social, and historical
contexts. It argues that the presumed expectations of the dead can become a coercive force …

As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion,
Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar:“raiding …

This introduction to the volume surveys the history and anthropology of Christian
conceptualizations of fairies, nature spirits and other “small gods.” It does so through a …