Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violen...

The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violen...

Mitte der 90er Jahre wendet sich in Argentinien eine neue Kinoströmung radikal von den bis dato gültigen, vom Hollywoodkino inspirierten und pathet...

This book shows that screens dont just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physica...

Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by a...

This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars.In the twentieth century Europes borde...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cu...

The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local population...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It inve...

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they naviga...

Focusing on the conflict and coordination between social development and political order in social governance, this book investigates the causes, e...

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have wi...

Brute. Cockroach. Lice. Vermin. People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish...

This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It examines ho...