Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Though his work was little known outside Italian intellectual circles for most of the twentieth century, anthropologist and historian of religions ...

Rituals promote the ability to attribute meaning to our lives because rituals are profound structures that define the continuity of experience betw...

Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork resumes in anthropolo...

A radically new reading of the origins of recorded musicNoise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the d...

This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with...

A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at prov...

Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary: Constructing Travellers and Aborigines endeavours to provide an overview of the role whic...

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Tw...

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Tw...

Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer--an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of...

African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to raciali...

Aulino's work is a strong contribution to the study of aging in the field of medical anthropology specifically because of the focus on the embodied...

During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders, and that her child bo...

Baseball has been Japan''s most popular sport for over a century. The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically...

There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are truly...

[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration....[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less pri...