Anthropology

The problem of citizenship has long affected Latin America, simultaneously producing inclusion and exclusion, division and unity. Its narrative and...

The central theme of this volume is the notion of irrational reproduction: the ways in which womens and couples reproductive choices and practices ...

Tracing key trends of the global-regional-local interface of power, Inés Durán Matute through the case of the indigenous community of Mezcala (Mexi...

Bestselling author Max van Manens Writing in the Dark brings together a wide range of studies of relevance to qualitative researchers and professio...

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them....

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural repro...

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Inst...

Globalization consists of an interlocking array of political, economic, social, and cultural forces that challenge the traditional international or...

Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with t...

This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional...

Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observi...

In the revised and updated second edition of The Tone of Teaching, bestselling author Max van Manen defines sound pedagogy as the ability to distin...

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term Afropolitan within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable t...

The unifying theme of Women and Careers is womens educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in g...

Cape Town has some of the highest figures of violent crime in the world, but how is it that young men avoid and enact physical aggression and navig...

This lively text by leading medical anthropologist Elisa J. Sobo offers a unique, holistic approach to human diversity and rises to the challenge o...

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...

From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and r...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

Sociology, emerging in the 19th century as the study of national societies, is the intellectual product of its time, power relations and social ima...

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

Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Designed both as a course bo...