Anthropology

In Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, the author follows three generations of one Lacandon Maya family. Readers track the subjects' lives as they shift ...

Exploring Cross-Cultural Psychology: Exercises for Instructors and Students is an accessible text that provides material for generating interactive...

This book presents some arguments for why a political anthropological perspective can be particularly helpful for understanding the connected polit...

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth ...

This book addresses some of the questions that have been brought to light by the varied experiences of culture industry workers and consumer public...

This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences. So many ethno...

This book brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on Indian consumer identities. Through an in-depth analysis of local, regional, ...

Point of Arrival (1975) examines the experiences of the various immigrant groups – the Huguenots, Irish, Jews, Pakistanis – who have made their hom...

Presents 16 case studies of ethnic conflict in the post-Soviet world. The book places ethnic conflict in the context of imperial collapse, democrat...

Originally published in 1924, Dudley Buxton explores the evolution of primitive societies in relation to labour. This is mostly done by studying pr...

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.In contrast to th...

In high-Andean Peru, Rapaz village maintains a temple to mountain beings who command water and weather. By examining the ritual practices and belie...

This book is about the uses and abuses of political communication in contemporary American society, employing numerous anecdotes and examples and d...

Christian Orthodox Migrants in Western Europe: Secularization and Modernity through the Lens of the Gift Paradigm explores a religious community th...

Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong wh...

In this revised edition of The Anthropology Graduate’s Guide, Carol Ellick and Joe Watkins present a set of practical steps that guides the reader ...

First Published in 2004. This text argues that there is nothing obvious or natural about our ideas of sex and race and looks at the evolution of th...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

How is film used in research, and what are the implications of using audio-visual material in the development of scientific knowledge? This book co...

First published in 1993. This is a new edition of Akhaenaten's boundary stelae, which now includes information about most of the boundary markers, ...

Find out what it’s like to go through puberty as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or asexual teen.What do you do when Mom says, “Yo...

Raymond Williams was “by common consent” one of the “two most commanding intellectual figures in the New Left that emerged in Britain at the turn o...

Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the class structure of a Britis...

A significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, b...