Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

A Just Future addresses the precarious future of American higher education and diversity and inclusion initiatives along with it. From a global pan...

A new English translation of a forgotten German text that influenced cultural understanding of money in the early twentieth century. Heinrich Schur...

The Sunday Times paperback bestseller and Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month*Featuring a brand new chapter!*'Never have the joys of explorin...

This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography.   The book provides a philosophical overview of th...

Examines the complex global impact of the ivory tradeThe economic prosperity of two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century New England towns reste...

Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers re...

Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectio...

Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeurs reflections and analyses of the body as ones own through explorations into the e...

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though its often an indirect one. True, the age of heroi...

Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeurs reflections and analyses of the body as ones own through explorations into the e...

Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals aroun...

Women, and particularly poor women, have become essential cogs in the wheel of financialized capitalism. Globally, women are responsible for managi...

Gandhi in a Canadian Context examines a range of intriguing and under-studied connections between India's greatest nationalist leader, Mahatma Gand...

In Everyday Violence against Black and Latinx LGBT Communities, Siobhan Brooks argues that hate crimes and violence against Black and Latinx LGBT p...

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its empha...

On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate cr...

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, ...