Anthropology

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classi...

Suitable for both introductory anthropology and upper-division courses in cultural anthropologyThe campaign of the Cree people to protect their for...

Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper ...

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organiz...

Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and ...

Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term ...

International regional organizations are created to serve the interests of the member states. The Arab League, the second oldest continuously exist...

The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opp...

Virtual America traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centu...

What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national b...

The growing threat of antisemitism, racism and Islamophobia within the European political landscape poses urgent and difficult questions. These que...

Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. ...

This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, do...

This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship...

This ethnography uses the lens of cellphones and other digital technologies to unpack marriage, love, sexuality, and family issues of Maya women in...

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist clim...

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s repro...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

At the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, a number of African American and Caribbean intellectuals and immigrants of the Afr...

This case study examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia, in the Western Pacific. Most members of the Na...

Originally published in 1934, and inevitably a product of the time in which it was published this book nevertheless remains an important volume in ...

This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life in a squatter settlement in Delhi. The book helps to unde...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and co...

This book analyzes the processes of social transformation in Iran from the height of the country's power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...

Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commen...

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological M...

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and persp...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

Although violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acqui...

Though Asian Indians are typically thought of as a "model minority", not much is known about the school experiences of their children. Positive ste...

Living with the Wayapi, and their charismatic leader Waiwai, is a serious adventure. It is demanding, and can turn dangerous in a moment. The envir...

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understan...