Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Filipinos make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Canada and the majority continue to retain their Roman Catholic faith long after migrating...

Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies - heavily influenced by both economics and ...

Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West through...

How did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy ma...

This book is based on a study of the strategies and tactics applied by municipal bureaucrats and local politicians in the pursuit of political goal...

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a g...

While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reform explores how people's lives interse...

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-ran...

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death’s enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarla...

Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising o...

It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the real...

This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of fascination to archaeologists a...

While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and po...

As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much t...

Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of...

In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultu...