Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

This volume examines the varied ways in which the senses were perceived afresh during the Enlightenment. In addition to introducing new philosophi...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of Han-ness, revealing the nuances of what Han iden...

Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a nation of immig...

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors...

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of...

Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on e...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify th...

In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure...

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume...

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, ...

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture ...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shi...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods....

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportat...

Learning in the Anthropocene: Reimagining Education in the Twenty-First Century reimagines the education of future generations in our complex socie...

In Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization, two distinguished anthropologists look at how global processes have shaped the emer...

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the natio...

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of e...

Assisted Dying is an ethnographically based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Floridas Gold Coast as a way of ex...