Anthropology

Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions between two seemingly opposed worlds: warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle s...

After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny...

Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeol...

This work argues that anthropologists have observed and recorded religious rites and rituals but have largely ignored the role of religion when con...

During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective ...

Seeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenship

In The Cinematic Body, Steven Shaviro proposes a radical new approach to film viewing. Moving between Jerry Lewis and Andy Warhol, between Fassbind...

Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity...

An ethnographic study of urban professionals in post-Mao China as they balance social responsibility and individual achievement

Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of al...

Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the foundin...

Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropolo...

A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico’s Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations, this collection has become a basic resource in the literature...

In the revised and updated second edition of this comprehensive book, the first anthology to integrate social-psychological literature on prejudice...

According to Kimberly Blaeser, Gerald Vizenor is "the most prolific Native American writer of the twentieth century," and Christopher Teuton rightf...

Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, tradi...

Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, ...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink o...

Recent scholarship on the Amazon has challenged depictions of the region that emphasize its natural exuberance or represent its residents as histor...

In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as o...

Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about thems...