Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation. This s...

How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 millio...

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India. Going beyond anecdotal accounts, it addresses the issues and concerns of arre...

This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sust...

The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Pea...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory...

This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional lin...

The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysi...

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined an...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

Race and the Colour-Line addresses the foundational ideas about race and colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and reconnects them to the...

First published in 1951, Man into Wolf attempts to suggest the possibility of historical, or rather prehistorical, evolutionist derivation of all c...

Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put...

Directly inspired by Indian British activist Satish Kumars 2013 seminal work Soil, Soul and Society, this book rethinks education in line with thou...

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between...

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool. In its inception, public theology was largely contextualized as the public church. However, this ...

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool. In its inception, public theology was largely contextualized as the public church. However, this ...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ...

What is food and why does it matter? Bringing together the most innovative, cutting-edge scholarship and debates, this reader provides an excellen...

This two-volume set CCIS 2278-2279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography...

This two-volume set CCIS 2278-2279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography...

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships Ethiopia stretches her han...

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships Ethiopia stretches her han...

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements What does desire have to revea...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements What does desire have to revea...

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse. The climate change crisis has b...

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local ec...

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local ec...

This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent hole in the wall ethnic ...

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cu...

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and ...

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or Wh...

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social ...

Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these ...

 Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worl...

The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced res...

In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Cour...

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan resi...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...