Anthropology

This multiauthor volume provides fresh ways of looking at community movements and social actors in Thailand and beyond. The chapters cover a range ...

This edited volume analyzes the belief in supernatural gamekeepers and/or animal masters of wildlife from a cross-cultural perspective. It document...

Social stigmatization is a virtual curse imposed on certain Indian social sections by the colonial government as part of their contextual political...

This book presents a critical and reflective view of fundamental theoretical orientations, thematic domains, and current debates in Indian sociolog...

Richard Parkinson's Thirty Years in the South Seas was first published in 1907. In this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the ...

Set in the Northern English City of Leeds, in the midst of Liz Truss 49 days in office, what we are now calling the Cost of Living crisis emerges a...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

This book contains nine contributions at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and sociocultural politics in mainland Southeast Asia, inspired...

This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities, displaced peoples, and communities contesting heritage,...

In nineteenth century Travancore (Kerala), the lower caste women were not allowed to cover their upper body in public. This book is a study of the ...

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Af...

This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Af...

Community is often invoked respectfully but without a clear referent. The word is said to be used ninety-four ways, evidence that its sense is diff...

How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveil...