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This thought-provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations.

This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the metaphysical to the political.

Drawing on their experiences in the field, from a Mormon theme park in Hawaii, to carnival time on Montserrat, contributors explore indirect communication from an anthropological perspective, illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses and rudeness constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning.

Ritual, performance and media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology. This text brings an anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the past decade.

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The aim of this volume is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, the consequences of the rise of rights discussions and institutions in both local and global politics.

Explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. The book shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, and also examines the relation between creativity and the perception and passage of time.

What makes an elite? This authoritative new volume examines elite groups in power across Europe, North America, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and Africa to answer this question fully at a time of their increasing dominance.

Focuses on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. This book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions.

Focuses on the anthropological concept of "future". Less concerned with prediction than in the causes and consequences of images of the future held in specific contexts of time or place, it aims to interpret the way we and others picture it and then to understand the effects that this has.

With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving following the debates of the 1980s.

This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.

This collection brings an anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the last decade.

A study which attempts to formulate an anthropological approach to consciousness. This text explores the importance of the conscious self, and of the "conscious collectively", in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.

This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations.

The aim of this volume is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, the consequences of the rise of rights discussions and institutions in both local and global politics.

This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives.