Anthropology

There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. 2015 was one of those moments for women, peace and securit...

This book explores the complex identities and connection between clients and prostitutes living in Spain and life beyond prostitution. It reflects ...

How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music maki...

This ethnography of Leeward Village, a large coastal community on the little-known Caribbean island of St. Vincent, illustrates how people in one o...

Arjun Appadurais 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers...

Contributing to existing literature on ethnic studies in China, this book is a study of minority subjective experiences in China, using Uyghur Musl...

Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of...

This book examines the burials in the context of the Ciudad community to gain some understanding of the nature of Hohokam social organization. It p...

This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st cent...

Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in moder...

During the last decade, a significant number of scientific studies have supported the use of human scent as a biometric tool and indicator of the p...

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practi...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book investigates the globalization process of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in West Africa, primarily in Benin and Ghana, based on e...

Community case studies are basic to anthropology, yet there are relatively few examples in which the promotion of social change has been the explic...

This book explores the relations between literacy and people's power in the context of Mozambique's project of socialist construction. It probes th...

This book on the important question of village viability arose from several organizational innovations. It presents the important experience of int...

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Perus southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a p...

Engaging Communities in Museums is designed for museum professionals who are hungry for information about how to design experiences in partnership ...

Bridging the gap between studies orientated around parenthood and those on the globalization of childhood, Parenting After the Century of the Child...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also ...

Being the Chosen explores Christian fundamentalism in the USA, focusing particularly on the belief system of Protestant fundamentalists. It establi...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted, ...

Migrating Genders presents a sustained description of male-to-female transgendered identities, explaining how the fa'afafine fit within the wider g...

Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change. Wr...

Advances in DNA technology have expanded such that forensic DNA profiling is now considered a routine method for identifying victims of mass fatali...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses...

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses ...

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narrativ...

As the worlds greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games has always commanded intrigue, analysis and comment in equal measure. This book looks to c...

As the globalisation of migration intensifies, many countries have joined the international competition for the most talented, skilful, and resourc...

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cr...

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rit...