Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework o...

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new p...

This book offers an exhaustive approach to all forms of staged violence, and in-depth analysis of their emergence and repercussion (dramaturgically...

Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provo...

Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abro...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abro...

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evang...

How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once describ...

How sugarcane monoculture decimated an island's water supply and peopleOpen access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748733Dominica, a place once describ...

We have puzzled over dreams for centuries. From ancient societies, believing dreams to be messages from the gods, Freud's theory of dreams revealin...

This is a narrative of struggle and solidarity and a collective toolkit for grassroots opposition to the twenty-first centurys militarization of ca...

In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture...

The story of the people of Buland Masjid, a community of migrants in Delhi. In Dreaming a Paradise, Chitvan Gill draws on years of research and pho...

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing. Given the...

Assessing Autoethnography provides readers with multiple ways to analyze autoethnographies and other forms of personal narrative writing. Given the...

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the populati...

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the populati...

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the disciplines most influential thinkers. ...

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers...

In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

Photographer Edward Curtiss 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigeno...

Challenges popular generalizations about cow protection and beef consumptionBovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society,...