Anthropology

This book brings together for the first time the most current research about the academic effects and policy implications of the school reform know...

Providing a critical ethnography of five different tribal movements fighting against the mega-industrialization projects in Odisha, India, the book...

First Published in 1991. In the 1980s many anthropologists rejected the classic concern with the structure and logic of social organisation and emb...

The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the intersection of history...

Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates t...

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a th...

This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolit...

How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of ‘ownership' of the past expressed in people's everyday lives? Should continuity with t...

How does the need to obtain and deliver health services engender particular (im)mobility forms? And how is mobility experienced and imagined when...

Advertising and Cultural Politics in Global Times traces daringly transgressive convergences between cultural politics and global advertising media...

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French liter...

When used in India, the term Kala pani refers to the cellular jail in Port Blair, where the British colonisers sent a select category of freedom fi...

The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the conditions of their produ...

Although the actual dreaming experience of the Byzantines lies beyond our reach, the remarkable number of dream narratives in the surviving sources...

This volume takes a more comprehensive view of past familial dynamics than has been previously attempted. By applying interdisciplinary perspective...

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more ...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion offers a variety of critical theoretical and methodological perspectives that interrogate the ways i...

This groundbreaking volume investigates the processes of globalization in one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul usually is ident...

In this innovative contribution to the study of food, gender, and power, Helen Vallianatos meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, diet...

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life’s paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life?Con...

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contrib...

This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspe...

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich co...

The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian c...