Book of Donmon Teith

The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circula

Combining linguistic, ethnological, and historical perspectives, the contributors to this volume draw on a wealth of information gathered from ten Amerindian pe

Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations

A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popul