Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Essential for any real estate professional or student performing feasibility studies for property development using Microsoft Excel and two of the ...

Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and ...

In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda. The Teachings of Don Juan...

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian...

In a dark record shop in Istanbul, Christopher King uncovered some of the strangestand most hypnoticsounds he had ever heard. The 78s seemed to tap...

* AWARDED BEST ANTHOLOGY BY THE ART ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND *How has Asia been imagined, represented and transferred both literall...

Made in the Americas reveals the largely overlooked history of the profound influence of Asia on the arts of the colonial Americas. Beginning in th...

The author takes an insightful look at an understudied phenomenon: that of ordinary pregnancy. She rightly notes that much scholarship has document...

This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces J...

Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies Aliabad. Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several t...

People of the Water is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural practices of the Uru-Chipayanshow they have maintained their culture and how they h...

Based on sensitive fieldwork and thorough ethnographic research, this is a marvelous account of the anti-mafia co-op project in Palermo, Sicily, wh...

Societies worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education, and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new comp...

Gong fu, the indigenous martial art of China, was exported into American popular culture through numerous kung fu movies in the 20th century. Pe...

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topic...

Conducting ethnographic fieldwork with children presents anthropologists with particular challenges and limitations, as well as rewards and insight...

Although tobacco is a legal substance, many governments around the world have introduced legislation to restrict smoking and access to tobacco prod...

This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the m...

The final destination of the Long March and center of the Chinese Communist Party's red bases, Yan'an acquired mythical status during the Maoist er...

In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to t...

Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so pro...

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

India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws ...

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

Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, ...

The book is ambitious and easy to read, has many rich descriptions, that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindf...

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europes political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude an...

Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing fo...

Best-selling author Ken Guest presents the essential readings and diverse voices that will help students understand their rapidly globalising world...

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining arti...

Using examples from different historical contexts, Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth examines the relationship between class, nationalism, moder...

In Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America, Tine Destrooper analyses the political projects of femini...

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosnjok) ...

Ten years later, they''re still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the Engl...

With the crisis of the global capitalist economy, the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theor...

Within Social Change, Resistance and Social Practises, critical sociologists of various nationalities focus on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-...