Pnina Werbner ; Richard Werbner

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary co

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary co

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements respon

Examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy

This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to eme

An examination of the Sufi Cults which exist in all areas of India and Bangladesh. Provides details of the resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and t

This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations.

Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic har

Blends personal, political and existential dimensions in detailed evocations of the ambitions and vulnerabilities of contemporary Africans.

“Werbner makes an outstanding contribution to the growing field of Anthropology of Christianity, ethnographically and historically. His writing is eng

Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle

This social biography chronicles the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family.

Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle

Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic har

Through theoretically informed anthropology, this book meets the need to rethink our understanding of the moral and political force of memory, its off

Is multiculturism simply a novel project of social engineering? This book rejects this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political ou

Is multiculturism simply a novel project of social engineering? This book rejects this view by demonstrating that multiculturalism is the political ou

Making a break with conventional wisdom in post-colonial discourse, this book explores contemporary African identities in transition.

A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the li

This book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the worldwide protest movements that followed. From Egypt to India, and from Botswa