Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, a...

In Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jdo Shi...

The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the...

Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies i...

Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian AnthropologyMultispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of...

Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian AnthropologyMultispecies ethnography turns its attention to the bodies of...

Presenting a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of theoretical and descriptive research in the field, The Handbook of Conversation Analysis ...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the gover...

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institut...

The contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a comparative afterword) have framed debates about the const...

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of deaths enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlai...

The dog has captured the Jewish imagination from antiquity to the contemporary period, with the image of the dog often used to characterise and dem...

Russia is among the worlds leading oil producers, sitting atop the planets eighth largest reserves. Like other oil-producing nations, it has been p...

Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological t...

ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA A critical insider, Jeremy MacClancy celebrates maverick anthropologists who transgressed academic frontiers, and ...

In Elders, Shades, and Women, Richard T. Curley describes the ceremonial life of a Nilotic community in northern Uganda and traces the alterations ...

This anthropological study of a workers village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwan...

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices hav...

Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently antagonistic. The first studie...

South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terror...

The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implications for the future, we d...

Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity...

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies Who speaks? The author as producer, th...

Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division ...