Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In the four decades following the end of World War II, Morris Janowitz (1919-88) published major works in macrosociology, urban and political socio...

“It’s not a process,” one pastor insisted, “rehabilitation is a miracle.” In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in ...

In ""Eastern Cherokee Fishing"", life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee pe...

This book focuses on the naming tradition among the Yoruba, one of Africa’s largest ethnic groups, consisting of over 40 million people.Investigati...

This groundbreaking study examines the cultural manifestations of envy in China during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, a period of unprecedented econom...

The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland A...

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body...

This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions which facilitate and maintain t...

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt rig...

This collection re-imagines language and communication through an ethnographic sociolinguistic lens, foregrounding perspectives on collective proje...

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for th...

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Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs examines the symbolic language of food, fertility, and infertility in a small, mountainous African kingdom to explo...

While the strength of contemporary Latin American cinema is recognized worldwide, less is known of the cinema of Indigenous communities in the regi...

This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and ...