Anthropology

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to ...

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She w...

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete form...

Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forens...

Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originate...

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial ...

Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that we, wh...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the myste...

An invigorating journey through Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants. 'Highly compelling' Spectator, ...

Growing economic inequality, corporate influence in politics, an eroding middle class. Many Americans leave it to politicians and the media to deba...

Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a ...

I was a poor, illegitimate child growing up in the West Indies, with struggles and challenges which became more apparent at times. I was brought up...