Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focu...

Incorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with participants and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested place of ...

From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obamathe historical development of r...

This is a comprehensive work and includes cultural studies and anthropology of revival movements from a historical perspective; it is focused on th...

This book is a comprehensive synthesis of Japanese civilization in the 21st century. It covers all major elements of this civilization with a stron...

The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focu...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportuni...

The lives of a previously `invisible and forgotten `first people of South Africa come to the fore in this carefully researched study. The `Karretji...

Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, ...

Denmark, the southernmost Nordic nation, remains little-known to many citizens of the world. Too often conflated with its Scandinavian neighbors...

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth centur...

Native American drumming and chant; Czech and German polka; country fiddling; African American spirituals, blues and jazz; cowboy songs; Mexican co...

Since 1972 the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote f...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, pre...

Author Tammy Stone focuses on a number of general deliberations on the archaeology of middle-range society and the prehistory of the American South...

Based on an ethnographic study, this book explores the cultural experiences of a group of Irish 6th year girls. Facing the high stakes Leaving Cert...

Ethnographic museums have been fundamentally reshaped during recent decades, acknowledging contemporary cultural practices, recognising aesthetic e...

For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work...

This book explores the issues related to the intercultural competence of future teachers and their readiness to work with children in a multicultur...

Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual cons...