Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropologys exclusive rootedness in the ...

This book examines the role played by Arab-Palestinian culture and people in the construction and reproduction of Israeli national identity and cul...

The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class, and Gender chronicles the development, growth, history, impact, and future direction of race, ...

This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples f...

This book explores the ways in which language and education policies have contributed to the development of national integration in Malaysia, by ex...

This book explores the understudied and often overlooked subject of African presence in India. It focuses on the so-called Sidis, Siddis or Habshis...

This book explores sex work in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition, it examines ch...

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organi...

What happens when objects behave unexpectedly or fail to do what they should? Who defines failure? Is failure always bad? Rather than viewing conce...

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes...

At the core of African American religions response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and sp...

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns i...

This volume investigates the ubiquitous education of everyday life as people contest the normal, settle on a new convention, and deal with the diff...

J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the leading South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of ...

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is an exceptionally clear and readable introduction that helps students understand the applicatio...

Mizoram is situated at a unique cusp in North East India, in terms of both physical and social contexts. It shares its borders with Myanmar and Ban...

Interviews with Mexican Women: We Dont Talk About Feminism Here presents a series of conversations with Mexican women representing a wide geographi...

Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth, which has too often been reduced to merely accumulated assets, this book views wealth primarily as a ques...

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focussed on the organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).The emphas...

Mafia-type organizations generate several distorting effects on the economy. In Italy their presence is endemic, and not only in Southern regions s...

Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about t...

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term Afropolitan within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies. A hotly debated and malleable t...

Interviews with Mexican Women: We Dont Talk About Feminism Here presents a series of conversations with Mexican women representing a wide geographi...

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at glocal languages, local langua...

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the wo...

Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters-the...

This book provides a robust gendered analysis and establishes a feminist approach to international actors responses to sexual violence crimes in co...

Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity ...

Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing c...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative...

Erotic dance is one of the most contentious issues in feminist debates today and a source of fascination in media and popular cultural representati...

Originally published in 1911, this edition published in 1920, this text comprises of an excerpt from Carpenters Adams Peak to Elephanta, originally...

Building on the lively exchange between anthropology and art that has emerged in recent years, Between Matter and Method makes a bold and creative ...

Building on the lively exchange between anthropology and art that has emerged in recent years, Between Matter and Method makes a bold and creative ...

Indigenous, Modern and Postcolonial Relations to Nature contributes to the young field of intercultural philosophy by introducing the perspective o...

Museums and the Challenge of Change explores the profound challenges facing museums and charts ways forward that are grounded in partnership with a...