Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

How do class, ethnicity, gender, and politics interact? In what ways do they constitute everyday life among ethnic minorities? In Getting By, Donal...

Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a hou...

While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwi...

The Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Pales...

These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that w...

Celebrities depend upon fans to sustain their popularity and livelihood, and fans are happy to oblige. With social media they can follow their favo...

At Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit he...

For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of th...

This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development. The book argues that arts and culture ar...

Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well examines a community of individuals whose aging trajectories contrast mainstream Ameri...

An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women's mobility in the Dominican Republic. Borders of Visibility offers extremely timely insight into ...

The unknown inside story of the NYPDs Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their o...

The Great Nation of Futurity is situated within the discourse and ideology of American exceptionalism which has undergirded the nation's identity t...

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential a...

Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original, nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral economies of Asia. ...

Light and Shadows highlights the 2,700-year history of Jews in Iran. It reveals centuries of oppression, fascinating cultural borrowings, and great...

To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a ...

Soka Gakkai is Japan's largest and most influential new religious organization: It claims more than 8 million Japanese households and close to 2 mi...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' ...