Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the disciplines history within a global context, with a goal of increasing...

Evans-Pritchard was perhaps the most influential anthropological scholar of the twentieth century. His extraordinary work in Africa has formed a ce...

This book examines the academic study of the African and Native American contact, African cultural change in Native America, as well as the existen...

Indianthusiasm refers to the European fascination with, and fantasies about, Indigenous peoples of North America, and has its roots in nineteenth-c...

In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks argues that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT p...

Indigenous healing is a paradox in the liberal settler colony, where an intervention fostering well-being might simultaneously aim to eliminate dis...

Through a meticulous exploration of oral traditions and community-based media practices, Unwana Samuel Akpan, Eddah Mutua, and the contributors of ...

Understanding Cultural Landscape at Great Zimbabwe: Realms of Power by Ashton Sinamai engages with archaeology through Karanga/Kalanga concepts of ...

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the ...

This book is a selection of linguistic and multimodal research on healthcare and well-being communication in Japan. This volume offers unique persp...

Much better than boring charts and old articles, The Return of Polyandry made my students see kinship as a key concept for anthropology today and i...

A Just Future addresses the precarious future of American higher education and diversity and inclusion initiatives along with it. From a global pan...

A new English translation of a forgotten German text that influenced cultural understanding of money in the early twentieth century. Heinrich Schur...

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This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography.   The book provides a philosophical overview of th...

Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns reste...

Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers re...

Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectio...

Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeurs reflections and analyses of the body as ones own through explorations into the e...

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though its often an indirect one. True, the age of heroi...

Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeurs reflections and analyses of the body as ones own through explorations into the e...

Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals aroun...

Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managi...

Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India's greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gand...

In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks argues that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT p...

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate cr...