Anthropology

What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called a...

A study of the lives of popular theater artists, Stigmas of the Tamil Stage is the first in-depth analysis of Special Drama, a genre of performance...

The first edition of They and We appeared shortly after the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his memorable "I Have a Dream" s...

Analyzes the trend toward increased mayoral control of urban schools, using Chicago and Cleveland as case studies

Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research is the essential guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in consumer environme...

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologi...

Analyzes the trend toward increased mayoral control of urban schools, using Chicago and Cleveland as case studies

The federal government promised to care for the Indians in perpetuity and in return, the nomadic Indians would sign treaties, settle on reserves, a...

Using data from archaeological excavations, patent filings, and marketing catalogs, this book provides a broad view of the introduction, spread, an...

How native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communities.

Family and Work in Everyday Ethnography exposes the intimate relationship between ethnographers as both family members and researchers. The contrib...

American Indians and the American Imaginary considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book's wide...

The Nature of the Path reveals how a single road has shaped the collective identity of a community that has existed on the margins of larger societ...

Describes the ways that the news media influences the development of our public past and how those publicly available pasts affect our understandin...

Fifteen gripping and inspiring stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are...

Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other asp...

Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behav...

More than twenty years after Bill Bradley retired from the New York Knicks to become a United States senator, his account of twenty days in a pro ...

 Jose Donoso has created a hauntingly beautiful novel of contemporary Chile and the human condition. Curfew takes place during a twenty-four-hour p...

Volumes 14 and 15 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane Unive...

The human head has had important political, ritual and symbolic meanings throughout Andean history. Scholars have spoken of captured and trophy hea...

Since its release shortly after the famous March on Washington in 1963, They and We has been a leading text in the field of racial and ethnic relat...

Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behav...