Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. In Truffles and Trash, Kelly Alexander reveals i...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships be...

Silence is crucial to our social world. Responding to the growing scholarly interest in social sciences and humanities for more in-depth engagement...

This transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative edited volume contains seven original, research-led chapters that explore complex intersections...

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars w...

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community. Though a fundamental issue in contemporary societies, ...

First published in 1930, this book sought to explain to western readers the vital necessity of approaching the Indian problem from the emerging nat...

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of distortion - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and t...

We live in a time of rising anti-immigrant fervour and attacks on multiculturalism. As Stuart Hall argued over twenty years ago, the capacity to li...

This book comprehensively introduces Cognitive Linguistics and applies its tools to religious language. Drawing on authentic samples from a range o...

Passing is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to pass away or pass on. This open-ended saying has at its heart a no...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt language, material culture, patterns of be...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book provides an illuminating perspective on alcohol use, drawing on approaches from both anthropological research and historical sociology to...

For many centuries Poland and Russia formed the heartland of the Jewish world: right up to the Second World War the area was home to over 40 per ce...

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexi...