Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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

This practical book shows practicing social scientists and graduate students how to account for cultural factors when developing and evaluating psy...

A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience. Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Wor...

For more than 200 years, archaeological sites in the Middle East have been dug, sifted, sorted, and saved by local community members who, in turn, ...

The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in art and anthropological exhibitions through the analysis of a series of c...

Within the social, political, and economic contexts existing in modern-day India, family is neither a simple remnant of tradition nor a domain mere...

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and rel...

Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by stud...

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key hist...

Violence is at the heart of the sacrifice, despite its denial in the texts. For the participants and observers, it materialises in the exposure of ...

In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explo...

With In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how ...

The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents. It is simply no longer possible to under...

This book explores the conjuncture and interrelationship between three so-called crises facing Chinese society: a crisis of marriage, a crisis of m...

Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the a...

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major special...

Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exoti...

Michael Longley and Seamus Heaneys lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative...

Beyond Observation is structured by the argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be determined by the fact that it is about an exoti...

Whether a five-star chef or beginning home cook, any gourmand knows that recipes are far more than a set of instructions on how to make a dish. The...

Through a series of rich photographs, Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio tells a compelling story about the war on drugs in Central America. En...

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the imaginative intellectual perspect...

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the imaginative intellectual perspect...

India's Imperial Formations explores the ways in which empire building occurs and consolidates through the Indian and diasporic cultural landscape ...

Theories Bridging Ethnography and Evaluation is the first of two volumes examining the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educationa...