Anthropology

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local ec...

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local ec...

This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent hole in the wall ethnic ...

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of...

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cu...

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and ...

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or Wh...

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social ...

Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these ...

It is not an easy roadbut hope is the oxygen of my life.  These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of ...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliabl...

Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Me...

 Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worl...

The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced res...

George Pitt-Rivers began his career as one of Britains most promising young anthropologists, conducting research in the South Pacific and publishin...

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of...

In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Cour...

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan resi...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies...