Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among ...

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and livesSet in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed Shangri-La by the Chinese government for tourism promo...

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and livesSet in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed Shangri-La by the Chinese government for tourism promo...

Is traditional American religion doomed? Traditional religion in the United States has suffered huge losses in recent decades. The number of Ameri...

An ethnography of silver backpackers that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societies The moniker silve...

Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in...

In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to off...

Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on televisio...

The world is witnessing a rapid rise in the number of victims of human trafficking and of migrantsvoluntary and involuntary, internal and internati...

Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and EgyptologyThe first monograph st...

This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. A...

This book examines the circumstances of the Kurds in 21st century Turkey, under the hegemony of the AKP government. After decades of denial, oppres...

This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into humanenvironmental relationships and ecologies, together wit...

This book is an ethnography of the metamorphosis of rural foods and traditional dishes and of the making of cuisine and identity in contemporary At...