Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Europe Un-Imagined examines one of the worlds first and only trans nationally produced television channels, Association relative à la télévision eu...

This book conducts a systematic research on the basic theoretical system of ethnogeography, area differentiation and spatial changes of ethnic comm...

'The book I didn't know I'd been waiting for - a fascinating trip through time and space, likening the uncanniness of A.I. not to science fiction b...

This edited book focuses on the ways in which contemporary societal challenges are constructed, mediated and lived through language and other semio...

This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the market and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet refor...

The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, ...

Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indig...

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Gren...

This book considers some of the ways in which time appears and seemingly does it work through moments of crisis. What can different concepts of t...

For decades, the agricultural settlements of Israel's arid Central Arabah prided themselves on their labor-Zionist commitment to abstaining from hi...

For decades, the agricultural settlements of Israel's arid Central Arabah prided themselves on their labor-Zionist commitment to abstaining from hi...

Alliance Rises in the West documents the experiences of a company town at a critical moment in the rise of working-class consciousness in nineteent...

This book uses Mori Kaupapa (a Mori approach, practice) to provide unique insights toward the anthropological understanding of power and place in H...

Ludwig Giesz (19161985) verbindet einen ausgeprägten philosophischen Spürsinn für das Hinter- und Abgründige der menschlichen Existenz mit einer se...

The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title...

Barrio San Siro: Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Mi...

In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations. This resolutio...

In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global c...

Based on intensive ethnographic work in Romania and India conducted over six years, this book traces the struggle for social justice in Roma and Ad...

Monuments around the world have become the focus of intense and sustained discussions, activism, vandalism, and removal. Since the convulsive event...

What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become ...

The Life of a Pest tracks the work practices of scientists in Mexico as they study flora and fauna at scales ranging from microscopic to ecosystemi...

Drawing on qualitative research conducted in the impoverished areas of Manila, Philippines, Fuyuki Makino examines how experimental methods in mode...

In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tale...

In recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global c...

Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smil...

Reconstructing the history of a highland Maya capitalConquered by the Spanish in 1524, Iximché was the capital of the Cakchiquel Maya in Highland ...

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Perus rapid industrializati...

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Perus rapid industrializati...