Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for a...

The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed ...

In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality,...

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It ...

Through a rich narrative ethnography of domestic life, this book explores the philosophy of social relations among the Guna (Cuna), an Amerindian p...

Anagarika Dharmapala is one of the most galvanizing figures in Sri Lanka's recent turbulent history. He is widely regarded as the nationalist hero ...

Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africas goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the worlds oldest indig...

Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africas goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the worlds oldest indig...

In dieser (auto-)ethnografischen Studie geht es in erster Linie um die Frage, wie sich verschiedene Differenzen etwa sprachliche, ethnische, kultu...

In dieser (auto-)ethnografischen Studie geht es in erster Linie um die Frage, wie sich verschiedene Differenzen etwa sprachliche, ethnische, kultu...

This book is an ethnography of Chinese daigou (cross-border shopping on the behalf of mainland Chinese customers) and their mobilities practices. D...

This book uses the notion of discretionary medicine to explore the landscape of contemporary healthcare in Pakistan. It considers how patients freq...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

This book examines how people around the world have articulated and shaped their experiences of COVID-19 through a sociolinguistic phenomenon known...

In the late nineteenth century, the growing discipline of anthropology was both a powerful tool of colonial control and an ideological justificatio...

In the late nineteenth century, the growing discipline of anthropology was both a powerful tool of colonial control and an ideological justificatio...

These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connec...

In The Charismatic Gymnasium Maria José de Abreu examines how Charismatic Catholicism in contemporary Brazil produces a new form of total power thr...

An overdue examination of the Midwest's long influence on nationalism and white supremacy. Though many associate racism with the regional legacy of...

For decades now, pundits and political scientists have been pointing to a major demographic change thats underway in the United States. Demographer...

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Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a mixed couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a poli...

As they migrated across great distances, ancient humans may have used birdsong and bird sightings to find food and water in unseen territory. Today...

Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality ha...

Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality ha...

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to artificial int...