Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book examines the origins, development, and current state of myths surrounding 'lost civilizations' and, more importantly, how these myths con...

  This is the story of an Irish father and his 18-year-old daughter and their 900-kilometre walk together across northern Spain along the ancient...

Throughout the nineteenth century, social expressions and dynamics have been reflected in the surge of various printed products. The contributors a...

This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and methodolog...

Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional instit...

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, ...

What role does the Holy Scripture of Islam, the Qurn, play in the history of European thought? How has it been read and understood in Europe since ...

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the...

Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda offers fascinating insight into the lived experiences of young people in Rwanda through ethnogra...

How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional written sources? ...

Segregation Made Them Neighbors investigates the relationship between whiteness and nonwhiteness through the lenses of landscapes and material cult...

Contributions by Ryan L. Fletcher, Darren E. Grem, Paul Harvey, Alicia Jackson, Ted Ownby, Otis W. Pickett, Arthur Remillard, Chad Seales, and Rand...

What is the life of a Palestinian worth to intellectuals in Canadian universities and news media? Analyzing the Israel Effect documents and analyze...

Viel zu wenig wird untersucht, wer weshalb mit welchen Medien Wissen auf Reisen schickt oder von Reisen mitbringt und wer auf welche Weise sich fre...

Dieses Buch bietet eine auf empirischen Fallstudien basierende gabentauschtheoretische Analyse des belohnungsbasierten Crowdfunding. Projekte des b...

Collaborative Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry invites readers to participate in the experience of engaging in and reflecting on the authors collab...

Collaborative Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry invites readers to participate in the experience of engaging in and reflecting on the authors collab...

Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into joking and avoidance relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Ty...

Contemporary Paganism has been a growing segment of American religiosity for over forty years and is composed of a variety of groups, practices, an...

In the 2010s, Londons LGBTQ+ scene was hit by extensive venue closures. For some, this represented the increased inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in soci...

An intimate look at twenty-first century households in rural ChinaChina has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant porti...

A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain worldWonder and awe lie at the heart of lifes most profound questi...