Anthropology

Archeology shares with other anthropological sciences the goal of explaining differences and similarities among cultural systems. Sally R. Binford ...

Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

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

Originally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of ...

’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and soc...

'Expresses an infectious sense of wonder at the uniqueness of our species; it is hard not to be affected by his enthusiasm' Sunday TimesWhat explai...

A unique approach to human behavior that integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to society Incorporating principles and findings f...

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

How did a Belgian Oblate missionary who came to Canada to convert the aboriginals come to be buried as a Cree chief? In Dissonant Worlds Earle Waug...

At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the “Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world.” This national ...

Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive ...

Social Forces in Southeast Asia was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books onc...

A provocative, perceptive study of the cultural dynamics of classical music in American society, Music, Talent, and Performance describes music as ...

"An accessible and entertaining read, useful to anybody interested in the ethnographic method." - Paul Miller, University of Cumbria "A very good ...

This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the h...

In 2018/19, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople initiated the establishment of an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Th...

Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than 200 other locations across the country to at...

In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the res...

When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and ea...

Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean ...

The very form and reach of the modern state are changing radically under the pressure of globalization. Featuring nine of the leading scholars in t...

When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensu...

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

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the A...

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

This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel....

Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countri...

Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to thes...

This special issue of Ethnohistory examines how Amerindian graphic codes interacted with alphabetic writing in the colonial polities of the America...

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

The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scien...

Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply infl...

Oral history has been employed for decades by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists to collect data about lived experience. This volume exp...

Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an i...

Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive ...

The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to ...

This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For re...

Learning from Chinese Philosophies engages Confucian and Daoist philosophies in creative interplay, developing a theory of interdependent selfhood ...

The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an ...

This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined f...

Anthropologist practitioners work outside the confines of the university, putting their knowledge and skills to work on significant problems in a w...

Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa’s public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of ci...