Anthropological Horizons
The series, begun in 1991, focuses on theoretically informed ethnographic works addressing issues of mind and body, knowledge and power, equality and inequality, the individual and the collective. Interdisciplinary in its perspective, the series makes a unique contribution in several other academic disciplines: women's studies, history, philosophy, psychology, political science, and sociology.
Editor: Michael Lambek, University of Toronto
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Exemplary Life
Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487542948
Pub Date: July 2022
Exemplary Life explores the world of the followers of Our Lady of Soufanieh in order to understand the role of exemplarity in social and religious life.
Shadow Play
Information Politics in Urban Indonesia
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487525729
Pub Date: August 2021
Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.
Suspect Others
Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781487540265
Pub Date: July 2021
This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.
Virtual Activism
Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487525132
Pub Date: June 2020
This book provides the first detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study looking at changes in LGBT activism in Singapore.
Materializing Difference
Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma
Price: $41.95
ISBN: 9781487520403
Pub Date: April 2019
Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relations and interactions between objects and subjects and investigates how these relations and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences.
Wrapping Authority
Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
Price: $43.95
ISBN: 9781487522445
Pub Date: October 2018
Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how Sufi women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership.
Island in the Stream
An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
Price: $43.95
ISBN: 9781487522995
Pub Date: October 2018
This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522193
Pub Date: February 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.
Europe Un-Imagined
Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781442628793
Pub Date: August 2017
Damien Stankiewicz’s ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.
Tournaments of Value
Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
Price: $40.95
ISBN: 9781487521325
Pub Date: August 2016
A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.
Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird
Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People
Price: $45.95
ISBN: 9781487520014
Pub Date: February 2016
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia.
Legacies of Violence
History, Society, and the State in Sardinia
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781442627291
Pub Date: June 2015
In Legacies of Violence, Antonio Sorge examines highland Sardinia’s long history of resistance to outside authority and the effects that a history of violence exercises on collective representations.
The Heart of Helambu
Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487520236
Pub Date: April 2016
The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of Tom O’Neill's experiences undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal.
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
Price: $45.95
ISBN: 9781442626317
Pub Date: April 2014
Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world.
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781442626584
Pub Date: April 2015
Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London.
Milanese Encounters
Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781442626997
Pub Date: March 2015
Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.

Exemplary Life
Modelling Sainthood in Christian Syria
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781487542948
Pub Date: July 2022
Exemplary Life explores the world of the followers of Our Lady of Soufanieh in order to understand the role of exemplarity in social and religious life.
Shadow Play
Information Politics in Urban Indonesia
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487525729
Pub Date: August 2021
Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.
Suspect Others
Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname
Price: $32.95
ISBN: 9781487540265
Pub Date: July 2021
This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.
Virtual Activism
Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487525132
Pub Date: June 2020
This book provides the first detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study looking at changes in LGBT activism in Singapore.
Materializing Difference
Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma
Price: $41.95
ISBN: 9781487520403
Pub Date: April 2019
Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relations and interactions between objects and subjects and investigates how these relations and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences.
Wrapping Authority
Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
Price: $43.95
ISBN: 9781487522445
Pub Date: October 2018
Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how Sufi women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership.
Island in the Stream
An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
Price: $43.95
ISBN: 9781487522995
Pub Date: October 2018
This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781487522193
Pub Date: February 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.
Europe Un-Imagined
Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781442628793
Pub Date: August 2017
Damien Stankiewicz’s ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.
Tournaments of Value
Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town
Price: $40.95
ISBN: 9781487521325
Pub Date: August 2016
A significant contribution to our understanding of the varied experience of women in the Islamic Middle East, Tournaments of Value gives a careful description of a world of female socializing, and the velocity, energy, and elaborateness of this remarkable female social world.
Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird
Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People
Price: $45.95
ISBN: 9781487520014
Pub Date: February 2016
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia.
Legacies of Violence
History, Society, and the State in Sardinia
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 9781442627291
Pub Date: June 2015
In Legacies of Violence, Antonio Sorge examines highland Sardinia’s long history of resistance to outside authority and the effects that a history of violence exercises on collective representations.
The Heart of Helambu
Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781487520236
Pub Date: April 2016
The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of Tom O’Neill's experiences undertaking ethnographic fieldwork in Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal.
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
Price: $45.95
ISBN: 9781442626317
Pub Date: April 2014
Since the 1990s, Mirzeler has travelled to East Africa to apprentice with storytellers. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro is both an account of his experience listening to these storytellers and of how oral tradition continues to evolve in the modern world.
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781442626584
Pub Date: April 2015
Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London.
Milanese Encounters
Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781442626997
Pub Date: March 2015
Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.