Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoti...

This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, develope...

There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published ...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published ...

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of b...

A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be d...

Mixed racial and ethnic identities are topics of increasing interest around the world, yet studies of mixed race in Asia are rare, despite its part...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

This volume focuses on aspects of folk life studies, written in the honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate. It covers all the various aspects of folk life,...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Signs of Identity presents an interdisciplinary introduction to collective identity, using insights from social psychology, anthropology, sociology...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the co...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

What does it mean to be an academic today? What kinds of experiences do students have, and how are they affected by what they learn? Why do so many...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeologica...

Who, or what, is the Green Man, and why is this medieval image so present in our precarious modern times? An encounter with a carving of the Green ...

This book is an ethnographic study of a HIV/AIDS choir who use music to articulate their individual and collective experiences of the disease. The ...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 195...