Anthropology

Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see to see Marcel Mauss's masterpiece, Essay o...

A battle is being waged in classrooms and capitals around the world over the goals and objectives of the future of global education. While there is...

This is a volume on loneliness and what can be done to address its pain. While most books simply describe loneliness from one author’s point of vie...

Aboriginal Family and the State examines the contemporary relations and history of Indigenous families in Australia, specifically referencing issue...

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

As German Jews emigrated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and...

In contemporary Indian Country, many of the people who identify as "American Indian" fall into the "urban Indian" category: away from traditional l...

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an intimate account of the emergence of capitalist r...

This book asks what strategies women’s movements can employ to induce law and policy changes at the national level that will assist women’s equalit...

If sociologist and cultural critic W. E. B. Du Bois proved prophetic about the twentieth century and its color lines, the beginning of the twenty-f...

First Published in 1999. This book does not aim to offer a new or radically different interpretation of the ongoing debate over cultural geography....

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important ant...

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology analyzes the cultural significance of recurring attempts since the time of Darwin to extract social and moral ...

In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants’ memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule and their musings on the contrast be...

In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the...

The fifth edition of Racist America is thoroughly revised and updated, focusing on systemic racism and antiracism issues, especially those arising ...

An ethnography of a long-unbuilt mosque in Greece that explores government operations and contemporary democracy Why Not Build the Mosque? tells th...

The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic religious movement initiated by a Muslim ...

Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that...

The study of the cultural landscape has gained momentum in recent years, revealing new insights to geographers, archaeologists, sociologists and ar...

Shadow of the Plantation focuses on descendants of slaves in one rural Southern community in the early part of this century. In the process, Johnso...

While scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temp...

The Guarani of Paraguay have survived over four centuries of contact with the commercial system, while keeping in tact their traditions of leadersh...

Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last linge...

In the 1960s and 70s, the government of China conducted a rather unusual social experiment called ‘Up to the mountains and down to the village’ whi...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Wine as commodity has received enormous academic attention, while wine as gift has largely eluded significant dedicated research and analysis. This...

A recurring theme of the public discourse on immigration in Europe today is that migrants are primarily young people, of working age. Against this ...

This book is a collection of the notes of S.B. Miles, longtime British official in the Persian Gulf, and covers pre-Islamic history, pointing out t...

This lost classic by famous anthropological theorist Leslie A. White, published now for the first time, represents twenty-five years of his scholar...

While scholarship on migration has been thriving for decades, little attention has been paid to professionals from Europe and America who move temp...

Through an integrated multi-disciplinary theory, Michael Robbins proposes that the human mind consists of two mental structures: the one we share w...

In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but what could be more modern than motivational programs that ...

Multiculturalism, Social Cohesion and Immigration brings together original research that addresses key facets of the changing dynamics of race, mul...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. When Linda ...

This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals...

You Can't Go to War without Song explores the role of public performance in political activism in contemporary South Africa. Weaving together detai...

Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. H...

Germany has long entertained the notion that the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery involved only other European players. Countering t...

Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan acros...

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas. Both must be inferred from the r...

Methods for the Ethnography of Communication is a guide to conducting ethnographic research in classroom and community settings that introduces stu...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.