Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a ru...

This book explores the legacies of the genocide of Roma in Europe after the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people labelled a...

This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Ch...

Out of Slavery, first published in 1985, is a series of articles commissioned on the 150 year anniversary of William Wilberforce’s death and the Ac...

No challenge is entirely new. In 60,000 years of human existence, nearly every problem we face in modern business has already been seen…and solved....

Despite being Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, with abundant natural resources, Nigeria still faces substantial development chal...

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

How we dispose of our rubbish, choose the foods we buy, enjoy art, relate to our families, and think about ourselves are just a few of the ways tha...

Forced Migration, first published in 1982, examines the impact of the slave trade on Africa. There has been much debate over recent years about the...

Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, acti...

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

Originally published in 1954 this book was originally designed for administrators but has become a key title for anthropologists. It includes a sum...

The publication of Fredrik Barth’s Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked a milestone in the conceptualization of ethnicity and ethnic groups and open...

Children Enslaved, first published in 1988, reveals the full extent of child slavery throughout the world. By personal investigation in regions whe...

The contemporary nation-state is popular in that it rests upon mutual identification between rulers and ruled. Such identification is based upon co...

The African Link, first published in 1978, breaks new ground in the studies of pre-19th century racial prejudice by emphasizing the importance of t...

This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberator...

This book explores how, unlike in the West, the daily religious life of most Chinese people spreads without institutional propagation. Based upon m...

This book is concerned with European identities among ethnic minorities who live along the eastern border of the European Union. Based on findings ...

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

Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis...

Animal Enthusiasms explores how human–animal relationships are conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim society through an e...

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

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

Originally published in 1947 and reprinted with a new preface in 1961, this book is based on field studies and gives an account of the social organ...

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

Originally published in 1961, this study of the indigenous system of government in Ruanda-Urundi until the beginning of the 20th century, describes...

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

Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, ...

This book explores attitudes and strategies towards the return of the wild in times of ecological crisis, focusing on wolves in Europe.The contribu...

Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of young people is stabl...

Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia breathes new life into the age-old human preoccupation with how to create a happier society. With a fascinating ...

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

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

Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failu...

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

This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very ...

Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of howmen in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct andperform ma...

First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropologi...

Buying In: Big-Time Women’s College Basketball and the Future of College Sports juxtaposes the rise of women’s college sports with the historical t...

Monuments as Cultural and Critical Objects explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography,...

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

Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate. In this book, Maria Baghramian and Annalisa Coliva present t...

In this interdisciplinary study, Mónika Fodor explores how intergenerational memory narratives embedded in the speaker’s own stories impact ethnic ...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing c...

Ethnography and qualitative research methodology in general have witnessed a staggering proliferation of styles and genres over the last three deca...