Humanities

How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists.   New...

Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and re...

The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian ...

Economic and social development is a major topic of discussion in courses across the social sciences, particularly those focused on Latin America. ...

If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? Wh...

Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISISs rise in 2014, Egypts Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as...

In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworke...

A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes ...

Most people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences...

Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subver...

The first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended the...

The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author...

On 22 July 1918 a group of Japanese fishermen's wives met in a small village on the coast to discuss what they could do to lower the spiraling cost...

Uncertain Citizenship explores how Bolivian migrants to Chile experience citizenship in their daily lives. Intraregional migration is on the rise i...

Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire is the first in-depth look at the experiences of Puerto Rican migrant workers in continental U.S. agricult...

Fires of Gold is a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry i...

Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruptio...

State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first centuryVenezuela under Hugo Chávezfor a revealing de...

Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world...

Policing Iraq chronicles the efforts of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to rebuild their police force and criminal justice system in the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

When 20-year-old student J. S. Margot took a tutoring job in 1987, little did she know it would open up an entire world. In the family's Orthodox...

Your hands-on guide to this widely practiced and ancient religion Buddhism, one of the world's most widely practiced religions, is a fascinating ye...

The period between 1500 and the present day has directly formed the world we live in. Growing population, increased urbanisation, industrialisation...

Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth cent...

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five mil...

Music is an art form but also a social activity. It is a part of every human society, contributing to community, culture, and a sense of group iden...

Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is oft...

The rugged highlands of southern Yemen are one of the less archaeologically explored regions of the Near East. This final report of survey and exca...

This book is now available for the first time in paperback, the remarkable debut of a former student of Alain Badiou. Quentin Meillassoux, a former...