Anthropology

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...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

Holly Swyers turns to the bleachers of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Field in this unique exploration of the ways people craft a feeling of community un...

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon hav...

This book explores recent developments in Institutional Ethnography (IE) and offers reflective accounts on how IE is being utilised and understood ...

This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the s...

A performance culture of illness and wellness In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickn...

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anth...

Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footbal...

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The shrimp ladies, locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell ...

This international and interdisciplinary handbook offers a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of contemporary research, theory, and practice in...

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability ...

Speech is the exchange of information for mutual social orientation. The fundamental features of speech are simplicity of elementary structure and ...

From an out-of-school perspective, the book studies private supplementary tutoring, also widely known as shadow education within the Chinese educat...

This book is about the relationship between art and work in the cultural economy. It is an exploration of the experiences of people working in cult...

This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in...

This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South Tyrol where they practice sepa...