Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life. Property, Substance, and Effect draws ...

Dorothy E. Smith (1926-2022) zählt zu den bekanntesten feministischen Soziologinnen der Gegenwart. Diese erste deutschsprachige Einführung in Smith...

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Stratherns Before and After Gender was intended a...

This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical material...

Seachanges brings together original essays examining human and cultural mobility from a musical perspective. Musicians have always been migratory f...

Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American SectionBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclu...

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

Winner of the 2019 ASA Book Award - Asia/Asian-American SectionBetween Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclu...

The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persi...

The compulsory service for young men in the Yugoslav Peoples Army (JNA) created bonds across ethnic, religious, and social lines. These bonds persi...

Wie konnte sich die Graffiti-Szene von einem kleinen, vorwiegend rechtswidrig und improvisierend agierenden Netzwerk zu einer der ältesten und stab...

The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the head of state but as the center or navel of the world. Like polities, persons a...

Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced r...

This research collection showcases how kinesic intelligence is fundamental to human communication and our ability to produce complex meaning, explo...

Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Jack Horner and Jack the Giant Killer are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often...

There are growing waves of desirable migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in it...

Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nations slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspo...

Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with...

Teenage pregnancy is seen as a problem by researchers and policymakers alike all over the world, but particularly so in the context of developing c...

Made in Mexico examines the aesthetic, political, and sociopolitical aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. To...

In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, militar...

Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians ar...

Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians ar...

In Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian: Essays on Food Choice, Identity, and Symbolism, Michael Owen Jones tackles topics often overlooked in foodways. A...

Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited fr...

Once heralded as the Black Mecca of the South, Atlantas Black community is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid t...

This collection of essays aims to analyse the uncanny as a concept developed in the field of the arts, from a variety of perspectives axed in the l...

This book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths con...