Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction One of Pearl Jam''s Jeff Ament''s To...

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

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to in...

Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan communi...

Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasnt ...

As the largest class action suit in Canadian history, the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (2007-2015) had a great impact on the liv...

In investigating both customary and modern Pacific art, these collected essays present a wide-ranging view across time and space, taking the reader...

Told from an ordinary mans perspective, these are the journal and letters of Wilhelm Weike as he accompanied Franz Boasthe father of modern anthrop...

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their communitywhich had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 yearswas displaced following the...

Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and...

In After Newspeak, Michael S. Gorham presents a cultural history of the politics of Russian language from Gorbachev and glasnost to Putin and the e...

The Anthropology of Citizenship introduces the theoretical foundations of and cutting edge approaches to citizenship in the contemporary world, in ...

Becoming Mexipino is a social-historical interpretation of two ethnic groups, one Mexican, the other Filipino, whose paths led both groups to San D...

The ethnographic methods that anthropologists first developed to study other cultures--fieldwork, participant observation, dialogue-- are now being...

Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau explores the role of song as a transformative force in the twentieth century, tracing a cultural,...

Where did the human species originate? Why are tropical peoples much more diverse than those at polar latitudes? Why can only Japanese peoples dige...

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandisauskas probes the strategi...

Over several years, Christian Suhr followed Muslim patients being treated for jinn possession and psychosis in a Danish mosque and in a psychiatric...

Pagan and Native Faith movements have sprung up across Europe in recent decades, yet little has been published about them compared with their Br...

At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons--a Central...

Tribes and Politics in Yemen tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the...

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social...

Chinas rise from the poverty, isolation and stagnation of the 1970s to the worlds second largest economy is a transformative event perhaps unequall...

Hmong story cloths provide a visual documentation of the historical and cultural legacy of the Hmong people from the country of Laos. The Hmong fir...

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich c...

For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremi...

This third volume of Nn i ke Kumu presents ancient and fundamental Hawaiian values and traditions associated with grieving and healing practices wi...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders, and that her child bo...

This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive each other. It fo...

Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popu...

Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of W...

Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic WritingNearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam W...