Why do humans form groups? Why would a brain, preoccupied with predicting the world, make the formation of cultures possible? And how does our socio-h…

Old men – especially those who live alone – remain an understudied group in the gerontological literature, despite their significance to the demograph…

In-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with th…

This book has two main objectives – to provide an overview of Danish research in the Afghan province of Nuristan, as well as to understand the scholar…

This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artefacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analysed and visually prese…

During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sámi, the only recognised indigenous pe…

Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and…

The Middle Ages integrated the human senses and unified their media into a culture of saturated sensation. The saturated sensoriùm nurtured princ…

"Elephants are not picked from trees" are the words of Swedish taxidermist and conservator David Sjölander, spoken while he was in Angola looking for…

Type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other diseases related to modern lifestyles have spread with frightening speed all over the globe, a development that is…

For centuries the practice of undertaking fieldwork and expeditions has been adopted as an essential part of research by scientists and scholars from…

The Taste for Knowledge: Medical anthropology facing medical realities demonstrates how medical anthropology is becoming increasingly important in the…