Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold ...

Much of the existing literature on happiness in Japan has been produced in the field of economics and psychology and is quantitative in nature. Her...

According to accepted wisdom, rational practices and ritual action are opposed. Rituals drain wealth from capital investment and draw on a mode o...

The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popu...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

This book is the first volume in the Garland Folklore Casebook series. It contains 20 essays on various aspects of proverb studies. These 20 essays...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they ...

Turandot's Sisters represents the culmination of more than a century's research on the riddle-tale subgenre by a small but distinguished group of f...

This volume, originally published in 1950, discusses the tribes around Lake Nyasa. The rationale for treating the tribes here as members of a singl...

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (an...

This volume is a work of fundamental importance in the field of orality-literacy studies. It provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account o...

This book shows the social context of a ballad tradition and its effects on the literature, and the functions of the literature in the social conte...

The effects of the partition of India in 1947 have been more far-reaching and complex than the existing partition narratives of violence and separa...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative ...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

This book shows that the brothers Grimm deserve the respect and affection also for reasons other than the discovery of the Marchen. It focuses on t...

'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first publ...

A new wave of community arts projects has opened up exciting areas of cross-cultural creativity in recent years. These collaborations of local peop...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoti...

This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, develope...

There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published ...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published ...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of b...

A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be d...

Mixed racial and ethnic identities are topics of increasing interest around the world, yet studies of mixed race in Asia are rare, despite its part...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

This volume focuses on aspects of folk life studies, written in the honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate. It covers all the various aspects of folk life,...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Signs of Identity presents an interdisciplinary introduction to collective identity, using insights from social psychology, anthropology, sociology...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the co...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

What does it mean to be an academic today? What kinds of experiences do students have, and how are they affected by what they learn? Why do so many...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeologica...

Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with a carving of the Green ...

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The ...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...