Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Since coming to power in 2003, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to...

Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and ma...

Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped. Partly because of ...

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi ...

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban...

For many Evangelical Christians, a trip to the Holy Land is an integral part of practicing their faith. Arriving in groups, most of these pilgrims ...

Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usu...

"Ever since the creators of the animated television show South Park turned their lovingly sardonic gaze on the massively multiplayer online game Wo...

Over centuries, African pastoralist societies have crafted institutions that enable them to survive in their harsh, semi-arid environment. Effectiv...

This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the h...

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent...

Cultures of Yusin examines the turbulent and yet deeply formative years of Park Chung Hee’s rule in South Korea, focusing on the so-called Yusin er...

The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fu...

In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between simila...

Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions, especially the ancestral s...

In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi...

Sierra Leone is often sensationalized as a place of extreme violence and suffering—of blood diamonds, child soldiers, war amputations, and Ebola an...

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban...

Documents reflects on the new challenges to humanistic social science in a world in which the subjects of research increasingly share the professio...

Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographi...

In Free Trade and Freedom, Karla Slocum reminds us that, despite current efforts at global integration, local and nationally-defined places continu...