Anthropology

Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are...

A compilation of historical documents written by Europeans during the colonization of southwest FloridaWhen Europeans arrived in southwest Florida ...

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, There are few major subjects about which men know so little, ye...

Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted...

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing c...

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing c...

This volume examines the varied ways in which the senses were perceived afresh during the Enlightenment. In addition to introducing new philosophi...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of Han-ness, revealing the nuances of what Han iden...

Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a nation of immig...

Anthropology for Development: From Theory to Practice connects cross-cultural social theory with the concerns of development policy and practice. I...

The world of religious experience is changing much faster than the discipline which claims to study it. Religious studies still uses Christianity a...

Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done...

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors...

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of...

Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on e...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

The Yanomami and Kayapó, two indigenous groups of the Amazon rainforest, have become internationally known through their dramatic and highly public...

Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify th...

In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure...