Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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....

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fa...

This book examines ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union to indicate how turbulent the world has become in the post-Cold War era-and how diff...

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers. Their research and writing focused on the folklore of British children their games, rhymes, r...

This book analyses the impact that stabilization clauses have on the development of human rights and gender laws in resource rich nations.Given the...

Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics...

The problem of citizenship has long affected Latin America, simultaneously producing inclusion and exclusion, division and unity. Its narrative and...

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them....

Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observi...

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with...

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term Afropolitan within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable t...

From decade to decade, significant changes occur in the choice of first names for children. One-time favorites are perceived as old fashioned and r...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

Sociology, emerging in the 19th century as the study of national societies, is the intellectual product of its time, power relations and social ima...

The Brexit vote; the election of Trump; the upsurge of European nationalism; the devolution of the Arab Spring; global violence; Chinese expansioni...

Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design. Designed both as a course bo...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...

How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticised role of Indians in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production? Native a...

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of the nation has remained. This book examines the cont...

What can wonder engender in terms of religious, political, and broader social practice? Thinkers from Plato to Martin Heidegger and Cornelius Casto...

Originally published in 1992, this Asian-authored book presents a cultural description and interpretation of American high school adolescent life a...

This book constitutes the first systematic and critical discussion of questions of immigration and society in Israel from a global perspective.The ...

In the third volume of the trilogy, Seta B. Dadoyan focuses on social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus exhibited in her f...

The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropologys exclusive rootedness in the ...

This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and cul...

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, ...

This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples f...

This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by ex...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

This book explores sex work in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines ch...

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organi...

What happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they should? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing conce...

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes...

At the core of African American religions response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and sp...

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns i...