Anthropology

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. A...

Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited fr...

Once heralded as the Black Mecca of the South, Atlantas Black community is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid t...

This collection of essays aims to analyse the uncanny as a concept developed in the field of the arts, from a variety of perspectives axed in the l...

This book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths con...

This book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths con...

Barbarians and Romans (1983) examines the rise of the barbarian tribes and the consequent decline of the Roman Empire. The author contends that the...

In the 1970s, new methods of social science research began to flower in Latin America, connecting academic researchers to grassroots social movemen...

  This is the story of an Irish father and his 18-year-old daughter and their 900-kilometre walk together across northern Spain along the ancient...

Youth Digital Health and Online Platforms focuses on young peoples use of the digital platform Reddit for health. Drawing upon dialogism theory, th...

A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power.

Throughout the nineteenth century, social expressions and dynamics have been reflected in the surge of various printed products. The contributors a...

This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodolog...

Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart is a compelling account written with analytical clarity and remarkable compassion. Helena Ragoné has ...

Focusing on one society's responses to famine relief and development efforts, this book is the story of how a people have adapted to, and survived,...

This book is an examination of multiracial identity politics in the United States and of the specific issues surrounding Office of Management and B...

Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional instit...

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, ...

What role does the Holy Scripture of Islam, the Qurn, play in the history of European thought? How has it been read and understood in Europe since ...

Historically, Hazaras were a marginalised ethnic and religious community in Afghanistan. They were perceived as the 'labourer class' in the country...

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the...

Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda offers fascinating insight into the lived experiences of young people in Rwanda through ethnogra...