Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? Thats certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologists and pundits would ...

The Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refuge...

Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originate...

The first comprehensive, book-length study of its kind, Conquistadores de la Calle presents the findings of nearly two years of ethnographic resear...

A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of vanishing Indigenous peoples through disposses...

A fascinating glimpse into an experimental British nudist culture that radically challenged and transformed conventional attitudes to bodies and th...

*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology For readers ...

''Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the world to li...

Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring and a riveting read. Cass Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge What is ...

The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her...

Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt tells the remarkable story of Franz Boas, one of the leading scholars and public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and ear...

From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for NonfictionIt is likely not terribly surprising ...

This book brings together the work of archaeologists investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherers (foragers) and early farmers in both the Southwest ...

Now more than ever, questions of citizenship, migration, and political action dominate public debate. In this powerful and polemical book, Gregory ...

The delivery of health care can present a minefield of communication problems, particularly in cross-cultural settings where patients and health pr...

The 2005 election of Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia marked a critical moment of transformation--a coca farmer and peasant union leader be...

In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society t...

A beguiling cultural history of colour by the BAFTA nominated broadcaster and art historian James Fox''This book is a triumph. James Fox''s passion...

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a little-known region of Turkey''...

Everybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia Dawkins explains, passing has been occurring for millennia, since intercultural and interra...

Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative and often critic...

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...

The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and ar...

The Theosophical Society (est. 1875 in New York by H. P. Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and others) is increasingly becoming recognized for its influentia...

The phenomenon of transnational adoption is changing in the age of globalization and biotechnology. In Legitimating Life, Sonja van Wichelen boldly...

This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic appr...

he Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and fut...

In the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation ...

In this innovative volume, twelve leading scholars from corporate research labs and independent consultancies tackle the most fundamental and conte...