Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing ...

On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcementOver the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queen...

An intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in Israel In recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to di...

What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north o...

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contempor...

Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these ques...

This book traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism-pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 191...

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects h...

Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexicoeven for people who never migrate or who ret...

The California farmlands have long served as a popular symbol of Americas natural abundance and endless opportunity. Yet, from John Steinbecks The ...

Argues that significant barriers to family-making exist for lesbian mothers of color in the United States One might be tempted, in the afterglow of...

For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word multiculturalism can seem like a sad joke. After all, institutionalize...

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to w...

In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indig...

In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in respons...

Genocide involves significant death and trauma. Yet the enormous scope of genocide comes into view when one looks at the factors that lead to mass ...

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebri...

This is the first major book on Albanian migration, the most significant East-West migration since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Prevented from ...

In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alon...

In September 2009, twenty-one members of the Haida Nation went to Oxford and London to work with several hundred heritage treasures at the Pitt Riv...