In small town Hamilton, Texas, things are not as peaceful as they seem when a set of big city teenage twins meet up with a teenage ghost hunter who's grandmother…

He Made a Way to Escape reveals how those who are living in an alternative lifestyle can find freedom from the lies of Satan, who has deceived scores of innocent…

Building on an incipient tendency to make comparisons between Indonesian and Melanesian cultural themes, this study makes a fresh comparison of themes that interrelate ethnographies of eastern Indonesia (for example…

This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. The…

Exploring the meanings and contexts in which violent actions occur, this text stresses the powerful underlying motivation for revenge and the connection between ideas of revenge and concepts of justice…

This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. The authors advocate a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one…

Explores revenge as a motivation relating to conflict and violence. Looks at Oceania, where revenge is traditionally a sacred duty to the dead whose spirits demand it. Beyond Oceania, revenge…

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental…