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The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in the field, this innovative exploration of these transformations develops an ethnographic methodology and theoretical apparatus to assess perceptions of power in three regions where state reform and violence have been particularly dramatic: Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

Memory making is a social practice that links people and things together across time and space and ultimately has material consequences. The contributors to this volume share a common goal to map out the different ways in which to study social memories in past societies programmatically and tangibly.

Taking cues from current theoretical perspectives and capitalising on the strengths of new and sophisticated methods of analysis, this showcases the vibrancy of bioarchaeological research and its potential for bringing `new life' to the field of mortuary archaeology and the study of human remains.

In case studies ranging from the Far East to the American Southwest, the authors of Last Hunters, First Farmers provide a global perspective on contemporary research into the origins of agriculture.

The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today's world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as ""culture"", once had.