Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Different from the social science tradition, ethnography today increasingly means different things to different people, depending on their discipli...

Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of indep...

The chapters within this volume comprise selected papers from the 5th Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Irish Association (A.S.I.A.) held at D...

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the coloniality of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino schol...

Translating Across Cultures is a collection of nine papers given at the 21st BAS/British and American Studies conference, held in Timioara in May 2...

In this book, Marcio Goldman provides an interpretation of a 'big' theme - the functioning of a modern political system - based on the ethnographic...

'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Va...

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE, JULY 2020How proteins, machine learning and molecular chemistry can teach us abo...

The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 1...

Every encounter begins with a greeting. Be it a quick Hello! or the somewhat longer and gracious Sula manchwanta galunga omugobe! shaking hands or ...