Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was b...

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

Refrains about monetary hardships are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed with the idiom to be a man is not a one-day job. But...

There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often cons...

Focusing on the intricate presence of a Japanese new religion (Sekai Kyuseikyo) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of ...

Drawing inspiration from Standing Bears legacy, Amiotte uses ephemera, historical and modern photographs and artworks, and the remembered stories o...

We like to think that science always illuminates. But the disturbing persistence of the concept of biological determinism-the false idea that human...

The Color of Power is a fascinating examination of the changing politics of race in Oakland, California. Oakland has been at the forefront of Calif...

As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conf...

This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages shows the transition from an internal ...

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing complex choreog...

Drawing on extensive and carefully designed ethnographic fieldwork in the Ferghana Valley region, where the state borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikizsta...

Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity, an...

Phillip Hofstetter first visited Yucatan in 1987 and was entranced, as much by the sheer physical beauty of the region as by the enduring character...

Eccentric artists are the vagaries of humanity that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by preWorld Wa...

How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadi...

This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of E...

Race and racism are significant factors posing formidable challenges for racialised individuals and groups across North America. For social workers...

This volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the d...

This volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued in...

Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of nationhood and the nation in the epistemologies ...

Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the role played by the concepts of nationhood and the nation in the epistemologies ...

The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has giv...

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was b...

This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former soviet countries. T...

Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can b...

Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation-and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consult...

Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce, E.M. Forster and Ingmar Bergman all made the paranormal essential to their depiction of humanity. Freud recognized ...

This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's three categories of friendship--friends...

The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practised Mahayana Buddh...