Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the...

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were com...

Grounded in critical heritage studies and drawing on a Pacific Northwest Coast case study, Maritime Heritage in Crisis explores the causes and cons...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

First published in 1999, The Nenets Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Norther...

The Transformation of Urban Liberalism re-evaluates the dramatic and turbulent political decade following the 'Third Reform Act', and questions whe...

Knowledge externalities - i.e. intellectual gains made by exchange of information for which no direct compensation is given to the producer of the ...

This book sets out some of the latest scientific findings around the evolutionary development of religion and faith and then explores their theolog...

This book explores how Irelands community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centu...

How are notions of home made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rat...

Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system, leading to the periodical suppression of s...

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

The Arab protest movements of 2010-2011 gave momentum and inspiration to unprecedented political mobilisations of migrants of Arab origin, whether ...

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concept...

Women are the worlds most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distor...

Published in 1937. This book, written by the well-known authority on the ethnology and archaeology of the Malay Peninsula, presents a compact and d...

The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. ...

This book explores the IndiaMyanmar relationship in terms of ethnicity, security and connectivity. With the process of democratic transition in Mya...

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginar...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced o...

North American Border Conflicts: Race, Politics, and Ethics adds to the current discussion on class, race, ethnic, and sectarian divides, not only ...