The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven
impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions …

Society's response to every dimension of global climate change is mediated by culture. We
analyse new research across the social sciences to show that climate change threatens …

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples
around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing …

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 …

“Elizabeth A. Povinelli's Empire of Love is a stunning achievement, tracking the intricate
connections between forms of liberal governance and forms of love in the contemporary …

How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities
about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of …

This book is an investigation of the ambivalent promise of bioprospecting—a distinctly late-
twentieth-century practice that stands at the very center of contemporary contests over …

The demand for better representation of cultural considerations in environmental
management is increasingly evident. As two cases in point, ecosystem service approaches …

Anthropologists since the 1990s have paid greater attention to the state and governmentality
than to one of the most consequential forms of power in our time, the corporation. The lack of …

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) represents multiple bodies of knowledge
accumulated through many generations of close interactions between people and the …