Anthropology

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was b...

When Breeze FM Radio, in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired school teacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketi...

When Breeze FM Radio, in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired school teacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketi...

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europes political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude an...

The book is ambitious and easy to read, has many rich descriptions, that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindf...

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists ...

Refrains about monetary hardships are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed with the idiom to be a man is not a one-day job. But...

Refrains about monetary hardships are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed with the idiom to be a man is not a one-day job. B...

What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal ...

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often cons...

Examines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic ter...

This book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out by Leo Marx fifty years ago. Contributors explore the lasting influence ...

There have not been many studies conducted focusing on womenas issues in this region specifically. The essays by various contributors in this book ...

In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in ...

The Color of Power is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California. Oakland has been at the forefront of Calif...

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing complex choreog...

Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyuseikyo) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of ...

Drawing on extensive and carefully designed ethnographic fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley region, where the state borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikizsta...