Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of distortion - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and t...

We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to li...

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range o...

Passing is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to pass away or pass on. This open-ended saying has at its heart a no...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt language, material culture, patterns of be...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to...

For many centuries Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world: right up to the Second World War the area was home to over 40 per ce...

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexi...

Narrating the realities of teacher burnout, the reception of a Black intelligentsia, and HIV awareness in local communities, Black Americans in Hig...

Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their visio...

This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA...

Bringing together ten research based contributions, Muslims, Migration and Citizenship addresses questions about the changing experiences of Muslim...

Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of security blurs to analyse manifesta...

This title was first published in 2000: Up-to-date information on socio-economic issues in contemporary Swaziland is not always readily accessible....

This book is the first in a unique series drawn from an interdisciplinary, longitudinal project entitled Thirty Years of Talk. For 30 years, Okano ...

Contemporary politics, this book contends, depend upon the turbulentstruggles and strategies around scale. Confl icts over scale can be seenas opaq...

The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the gr...

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the mi...

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental...

Race in the Shadow of Law offers a critical legal analysis of European responses to institutional racism. It draws connections between contemporary...

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Intro...

A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Dr...

The State of the Jews examines the current predicament of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, both of which still stand at the storm center o...

This book focuses on the relations between citizenship and various manifestations of diversity, including, but not exclusively, ethnicity. Contribu...

Ho addresses two fundamental theoretical questions about how best to practice ethnographic inquiries to obtain qualitative, experience-near, and sh...

What separates modern humans from our primate cousinsare we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive ...

While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of ...

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview ...

This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically refer...

Much scholarship of any region focuses on the perceived problems that hold back a population. Central Asia is no exception, as it is a region with ...

What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research...

As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out ...

Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression a force to be kept in check....