Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africa’...

The Tourist Experience is complex, intrinsically personal, and highly emotional. Consequently, it is not easy to understand what it is that drives ...

Awarded the 2023 "René Wellek Prize for the Best Edited Essay Collection" by the American Comparative Literature Association, Migrating Minds contr...

This volume offers insights from political anthropology on how to analyze and how to think about contemporary areas of internationalized political ...

The Australian nation has reached an impasse in Indigenous policy and practice and fresh strategies and perspectives are required. Trapped by Histo...

This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of socia...

India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (san...

The Evolution of Human Cleverness presents a unique introduction to the way human cognitive abilities have evolved. The book comprises a series of ...

This book describes a ubiquitous and potent emotion that has only rarely and recently been studied in any systematic manner. The words that come cl...

A Filtered Life is the first comprehensive ethnographic account to explore how college students create and manage multiple identities on social med...

Based on three years of fieldwork in Zhanli, a remote Kam Village in Guizhou Province, Wang and Jiang explore the complex dynamics between the disc...

Once celebrated for connecting people and circulating ideas, social media are facing mounting criticisms about their anticompetitive reach, addicti...

This book examines the question of class formation and social inequality within tribal groups in North-East India.Focussing on the Nagas, it analys...

If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. ...

An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, this volume brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious o...

Originally published in 1949, this book discusses Umbundu social structure and education, with particular reference to how both of these adapted as...

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

Misanthropology: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Study of Humanity introduces students to key concepts in critical thinking across the four core br...

This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new, to raise methodology into historiography. As the...

This collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among pie...

This book is one of the first to present a definitive history of the Christian Ashram Movement. It offers insights into the development of the Move...

The importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) in the lives of very young children is gaining increasing attention around the globe an...

Black Spaces examines how space and place are racialized, and the impacts on everyday experiences among African Italians, immigrants, and refugees....

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

By examining Black mixed-race identities in the city through a series of historical vantage points, Making Mixed Race provides in-depth insights in...

Originally published in 1968, this book gave a rounded picture of some of the problems which were facing the Highlands of Scotland in the first hal...

Providing an indispensable resource for students and scholars studying the history of medieval women and gender, this book provides a comprehensive...

Originally published in 1978, this book explores the relationship between the Gaelic and English spheres of life, from the life of the bilingual Ga...

South Asians constitute the largest expatriate population in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Their contribution in the socio-economic...

A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise an...

Originally published in 1992, this book places Cypriot migration to Britain within the context of New Commonwealth migration as a whole and within ...

This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today’s business and society. Drawing on contributions from a wide range o...

Although the significance of transatlantic currents of influence on slavery and abolition in the Americas has received substantial scholarly attent...

Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, bi...

Focusing on forms of interaction and methods of negotiation in multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual contexts during Antiquity and the Middl...

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside o...

Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisation of the Lo Wiili of the Haute Volta and Ghana....

Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is ...

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

This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from the GRACE (Gender a...

Drawing on rich ethnographic materials from longitudinal fieldwork on informal trading routes across Europe, Travelling with the Argonauts offers...

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully dev...

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cu...

The Iranian city experienced a major transformation when the Pahlavi Dynasty initiated a project of modernization in the 1920s. The Rite of Urban...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cathe...