Anthropology

Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the p...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

The longest-lived stereotype of Jews with the broadest appeal is the idea that Jews are money-driven. From the fictional moneylender Shylock demand...

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider s...

Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bols...

In New York City in 2009, a new kind of public school opened its doors to its inaugural class of middle schoolers. Conceived by a team of game desi...

Can human rights be truly universal, without becoming a subtle form of Western imperialism or restricting the rights of women, minorities, LGBT peo...

Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss nei...

Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss nei...

Bringing together evidence from 15 Western and non-Western societies - ranging from hunter-gatherers to urban Americans - this book examines wife-b...

This book presents the results of a comprehensive longitudinal and cross-sectional seven-year study of the social ecology of growth and development...

This remarkable book explores questions of identity and value posed by people living on (or near) the small Pacific island of Karavar in Papua New ...

This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st cent...

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new ...

This volume closely analyses womens role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in t...

The period between the 16th and 18th centuries witnessed the expansion of European travel, trade and colonization around the globe, resulting in gr...

The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present. Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore ne...

This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experience...

The period from the 1920s to the present is marked by the rise of eugenics, the expansion and hardened enforcement of immigration laws, legal apart...

This volume covers the cultural history of race in the long 19th century the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which ...