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Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion

World Oral Literature Series
Including some of our most-read titles, this series exists to preserve and promote the oral literatures of indigenous people by publishing materials on endangered traditions in innovative ways.
Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis
Tales of Darkness and Light: Soso Tham's The Old Days of the Khasis
Soso Tham. Translated and annotated by Janet Hujon

Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus
Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus
Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (eds.)

Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
Jody Butterworth, Andrew Pearson, Patrick Sutherland and Adam Farquhar (eds.)

Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
Li Dechun (李得春, Limusishiden) and Gerald Roche

Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture
Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture
Agner Fog

Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa
Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa
Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin (eds.)

Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India
Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (eds.)

From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Maja Kominko (ed.)

Measuring the Master Race: Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945
Measuring the Master Race: Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945
Jon Røyne Kyllingstad

God's Babies: Natalism and Bible Interpretation in Modern America
God's Babies: Natalism and Bible Interpretation in Modern America
John McKeown

Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
Stories from Quechan Oral Literature
Linguistic work by A.M. Halpern and Amy Miller

Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice
Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice
Constantine Sandis (ed.)

Beyond Holy Russia: The Life and Times of Stephen Graham
Beyond Holy Russia: The Life and Times of Stephen Graham
Michael Hughes

Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
Xiipúktan (First of All): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People
George Bryant (linguistic work by Amy Miller)

How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
Lee Haring

Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Storytelling in Northern Zambia: Theory, Method, Practice and Other Necessary Fictions
Robert Cancel

Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas
Sara Roncaglia

Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities
Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler and Eleanor Wilkinson (eds.)

Oral Literature in Africa
Oral Literature in Africa
Ruth Finnegan

Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border
Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border
Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace and Caroline Humphrey (eds.)

Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
Ruth Finnegan

The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines
Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann (eds.)