Anthropology

This edited volume tackles the theoretical, empirical and methodological questions of how novelty can be determined in and through educational ethn...

A Stanford University Press classic.

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, ...

Reveals how this traditional society deals with conflicts arising from contact with the non-Ahmadi

When initially published in 1972, Foundations of Political Sociology was acknowledged to be the first unified study of the field. It still provides...

This book interrogates politics and practices of multiculturalism and multicultural education in contexts where liberal and critical multiculturali...

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects co...

For more than a decade a vicious civil war has torn the fabric of society in the West African country of Sierra Leone, forcing thousands to flee th...

The last several decades have witnessed major restructurings—economic, political, and cultural—in the international arena. The depth and scope of t...

Western philosophy has long held scientific rationalism in a place of honour. Reason, that particularly exalted human quality, has become steadily ...

The movement of Brazilians of Japanese descent to Japan is one of the most intriguing transnational migrations of recent years. In 1990, seeking a ...

In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performati...

Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropological and historical scholarshi...

Rituals have always been a focus of ethnographies of Melanesia, providing a ground for important theorizing in anthropology. This is especially tru...

Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between persona...

Using both grand conceptualizations and grounded case studies, Allan Pred and Michael Watts look at how people cope with and give meaning to capita...

Provides fresh insights into the policies and developments that led to the centralization of Inuit settlement during the 1950s and 1960s

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an ant...

The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece’s southern Argolid peninsula have attempted t...

This book focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a Yugoslav nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea ultimately faile...

No single person is more directly associated with India and India's struggle for independence than Mahatma Gandhi. His name has equally become syno...

For Europeans looking across the Atlantic, American culture is often the site of desire, fascination, and envy. In Britain, the rich culture of the...

In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition—y...

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Fire in the Plaça is the first full-length study in English of the Patum, a Corpus Chr...

From accounts of the Holocaust, to representations of AIDS, to predictions of environmental disaster; from Hal Lindsey's fundamentalist 1970s bests...

Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applie...

This exceptional collection--a compilation of meta-analyses related to issues in interpersonal communication--provides an expansive review of exist...

Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journal...

Beyond the Second Sex is an innovative work that challenges Simone de Beauvoir's notion that women are "the second" in every society. Anthropologic...

Popular music has traditionally served as a rallying point for voices of opposition, across a huge variety of genres. This volume examines the vari...

Eskimo Essays introduces the reader to important aspects of the ideology and practice of the Yup’ik Eskimos of western Alaska, past and present. Th...

Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social rel...