Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical an...

Im Zuge eines anscheinend ununterbrochenen und unaufhaltsamen technischen Fortschritts scheint die Entwicklung einer künstlichen Superintelligenz a...

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral...

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral...

The Lowland South American World showcases cutting-edge research on the anthropology of Lowland South America, providing both an in-depth knowledge...

Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture, and power.Based up...

Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture, and power.Based up...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmars genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to...

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholar...

Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and s...

The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societi...

A Simpler Life approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two...

A lavishly illustrated collection of Syrian textiles from the turn of the twentieth centuryFor hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syria...

How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmakingindividuals whose only interaction is often just one brief mee...

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

Since August 2017, the Tatmadaw, Myanmars security forces, have conducted clearance operations in the Rakhine State, driving a mass exodus of ethni...

In Everyday Food Practices, Tarunna Sebastian explores the teaching and learning dimensions of peoples food choices and practices as they are playe...

Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing mil...

Myanmars security forces have conducted clearance operations in the Rakhine State since August 2017, driving a mass exodus of ethnic Rohingyas to n...

In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity, Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections...

This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literat...

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia. Drawing on a m...

In healthcare, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments. However, in the digital era, the dynamics of experiencing an...

Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various...

Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with th...

The book provides a social analysis of marriage in contemporary Zimbabwe, highlighting how the institution is changing and evolving in the face of ...

Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews...

Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Ma...

Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation's jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishme...