Anthropology

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeolog...

This is the first such collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhsta...

This book examines the migration of Indians (mainly from the Punjab region in north India) to parts of northern Italy, especially the Emilia-Romagn...

This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but ...

Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. By taking the case of Siay...

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situat...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be mod...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be mod...

In Fragile Kinships, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is...

In Fragile Kinships, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging knowledge class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging knowledge class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-...

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political...

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political...

In the early 1990s, queer anthropology represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but ...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies an...

In the early 1990s, queer anthropology represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but ...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies an...

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a...

Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condi...

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a...

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, id...

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, id...

Following decades of brutal campaigns against left forces, fascism in its nationalist and religious forms has been dominating Turkish, Iranian, and...

A view into the diverse culture of the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries   Although Manila, capital city of the Philippines, ...

A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects...

South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current p...

The Fear of Erring, a combination of thick ethnography and an ethnopoetic storyline, illustrates how mistrust, ignorance, and imagination govern th...

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case...