This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world.  Meer

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics.  Meer

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century – a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of ‘liquid modernity’ – or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation.  Meer

New edition of this core text for all students of social anthropology. Additions include cultural property rights and commercialisation of identity.  Meer

An anthropological study of a community 'marinated' in fossil fuels, fraught by ambivalence and conflict.  Meer

This book seeks to enhance comparative understandings of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.  Meer

This book seeks to enhance comparative understandings of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.  Meer

Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century.  Meer

For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics.  Meer

A definitive biography of Fredrik Barth, one of the leading lights of anthropology, by one of today's finest anthropologists.  Meer

A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world  Meer

A new edition of the classic anthropology textbook which shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world  Meer

Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century.  Meer

Although economic, cultural and demographic changes are part and parcel of the modern world, changes in a number of areas have accelerated in the last quarter-century – a period sometimes spoken of as the global information society, a world of ‘liquid modernity’ – or of fully-fledged global neoliberalism associated with deregulation, flexible accumulation and financialisation.  Meer