Fully updated fifth edition of the classic introduction to social and cultural anthropology

Discover the wisdom of our greatest writers and philosophers to help you tackle life's big questions.

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Wild Fictions is a collection of essays written over the past 25 years or so and published in various journals and periodicals.

The essays can be clubbed under the broad headings of writings on literature and language, climate change and environment, human lives, travel and discoveries, and opinions and conversations. They focus on the abiding concerns that are reflected in Ghosh's works of fiction and non-fiction: colonization, colonialism and its effects; the complex and delicate ...

As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE

'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES

'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' SUNDAY TIMES

'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*

This is a book about the coming of age of four women b...