Anthropology

Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic fieldwork and anthropological theory, anthropologist Brian Moeran argues that fashion magazines are able to cas...

This book challenges orthodox public perspectives on reproduction. It relies on participant observation, field censuses, interviews, and use of off...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...

This book bridges the gap between cultural values and medical technology, focusing in the areas of conception, birth, and neonatality. It brings to...

Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and inter...

The Domestication of Humans explains the alternative to the African Eve model by attributing human modernity, not to a speciation event in Africa, ...

This book presents nine case studies which illustrate an approach to the interface between human ecology, political economy, and adaptive decision ...

This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and ba...

Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of ...

First published in 1920, Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast is a study of the ethnological attributes of a West African tribe. I...

Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous sch...

This book analyzes the socio-spatial changes that follow the end of nomadism, especially in the unique case of the Bedouin of the Negev. It explore...

This book presents community case studies that involve long-term community-based research, close collaboration between researchers and representati...

As the global climate shifts, communities are faced with a myriad of mitigation and adaptation challenges. These highlight the political, cultural,...

After Discourse is an interdisciplinary response to the recent trend away from linguistic and textual approaches and towards things and their affec...

This book illuminates how the relationships between the population movements and patterns of employment influence the growth of cities in Indonesia...

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonia...

This book analyzes the impact of thirty years of labor migration from the Mediterranean region and from Finland to western and northern continental...

This book documents the function of social science analyses in the identification and evaluation of development programs in the Middle Eastern and ...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted,...

Part of the Primate Field Studies series. The Spectral Tarier shares the results of long-term field study by Sharon L. Gursky with a broad audience.

This book describes the first field study focusing on the behavior of hamadryas females in the wild. In its attempt to rectify the male-biased view...

This book covers the major theoretical perspectives, content areas, and methodologic approaches that presently characterize the field of anthropolo...

Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of cu...