Archaeology

The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies

Lu Ann De Cunzo Catharine Dann Roeber

A fresh and comprehensive account of 21st century approaches to material culture, exploring and challenging disciplinary boundaries.

Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology

June 2022 244 x 170 mm c.800pp 9781108474610 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R

Trade before Civilization

Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity Edited by Johan Ling Richard Chacon and Kristian Kristiansen

This volume analyses the relationship between longdistance trade and the rise of inequality and social complexity.

July 2022 253 x 177 mm c.400pp 9781316514689 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C

new departures in anthropology

The Anthropology of Intensity

What counts as too close for comfort? How can an entire room suddenly feel restless at the imminence of a yet unknown occurrence? And who decides whether or not we are already in an age of unliveable extremes? The anthropology of intensity studies how humans encounter and communicate the continuous and gradable features of social and environmental phenomena in everyday interactions. Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a Mayan village in the cloud forests of Guatemala, this book provides a natural history of intensity in exceedingly tense times, through a careful analysis of ethnographic and linguistic evidence. It uses intensity as a way to reframe Anthropology in the age of the Anthropocene, and rethinks classic work in the formal linguistic tradition from a culture-specific and context-sensitive stance. It is essential reading for not only anthropologists and linguists, but also for ecologically oriented readers, critical theorists, and environmental scientists.

PAUL KOCKELMAN is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His books include Kinds of Value: An Experiment in Modal Anthropology (Prickly Paradigm Press) and The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation (Oxford University Press).

Cover image: Gulgun Ulusoy/Moment/Getty Images

Cosmopolitan Sexuality

The Anthropology of Hijras in Contemporary India Ahonaa Roy

August 2022 9781108490443 Hardback TBA / TBA

Kockelman The Anthropology of Intensity

new departures in anthropology

The Anthropology of Intensity

Language, Culture, and Environment

Paul Kockelman

The Anthropology of Intensity

Language, Culture, and Environment Paul Kockelman

By using a linguistic and anthropological framework, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the Anthropocene.

New Departures in Anthropology

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781009011075 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P

Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete

A History through Objects Andrew Shapland

Reassesses the animal depictions of Bronze Age Crete in terms of human-animal relations rather than a love of nature.

May 2022 253 x 177 mm c.300pp 9781009151542 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

A History Jean-Claude Poursat Carl Knappett

This volume is one of the most comprehensive and illustrated textbook for Aegean prehistory yet to appear in English.

May 2022 279 x 216 mm c.550pp 9781108471343 Hardback £195.00 / US$255.00 R ARCHAEOLOGY

Human Prehistory

Exploring the Past to Understand the Future Deborah Barsky

Human prehistory is an effective tool for adopting an evolutionary perspective on present day and future challenges humans face.

July 2022 253 x 177 mm c.288pp 9781009011990 Paperback c. £28.99 / c. US$36.99 X

Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age

Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies Sarah Murray

Breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

June 2022 253 x 177 mm c.350pp 9781316510933 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C