Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are l...

In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first dec...

How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadi...

What if the job of police was to cultivate the political will of a community to live with itself (rather than enforce law, keep order, or fight cri...

What if the job of police was to cultivate the political will of a community to live with itself (rather than enforce law, keep order, or fight cri...

Aulino's work is a strong contribution to the study of aging in the field of medical anthropology specifically because of the focus on the embodied...

What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken la...

In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, sustainable hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-...

Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication, Third Edition explores intercultural communication and the relationship between communication and c...

Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority on the subject, this is the first major account in nearly a century to deal with ...

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center a...

There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigra...

While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are l...

Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and...

Winner of the 2017 Nautilus Silver Award! This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have u...

An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own makingOther species adapt to their environments; we alone c...

For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms i...

In this volume, leading scholars in anthropology, religion, and area studies engage global and local perspectives dialectically to develop a histor...

Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Af...

An ethnographic portrayal of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natura...

We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits'' End. The authors take us on a journey through the g...

Colonized since the 1600s, Taiwan is largely a nation of settlers. Yet within its population of 23 million are some 500,000 Aboriginal people. Gene...

Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain.Japanese proverbThis is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanat...

Many people think of Jews as victims of a particular sort of racism, not as active participants in the development of racial thinking in the ninete...

Slow Anthropology considers the history of the Iu Mien, an upland Laotian minority caught in the disruptions of the Vietnam-American war. This stud...