Anthropology

Racism has a long history and its devastating impacts continue to spark heated, moral and political debate and give rise to social movements and wi...

Mankinds constant struggle with physical as well as mental weaknesses is omnipresent in ancient literature: misconduct, wrongdoing, failure and ex...

The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brin...

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned commun...

The post-war decades of the 1950s to the 1970s saw a mass migration from Cyprus to the UK. More recent years, however, have witnessed a 'return' to...

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution...

Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cathe...

This volume gives voice to an impressive range of Indigenous authors who share their knowledge and perspectives on issues that pertain to activism,...

Practicing Critical Oral History: Connecting School and Community provides ways and words for educators to use critical oral history in their class...

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable l...

Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens an...

This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression. It reveals how humor is in many instances central to human efforts to cope ...

Hamid Dabashis 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted is simultaneously subtle, passionate, polarizing and polemical. A concise account of Iranian history...

In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and conte...

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansioni...

This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology h...