Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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

This book delves into Turkeys increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic, and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the ...

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and...

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for th...

The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy - an immediate libera...

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

In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the countrys urban black youth developed kwaitoa form of elec...

In A People and a Nation, the authors, most of whom are themselves Métis, offer readers a set of lenses through which to consider the complexity of...

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

On the twelfth floor of an undistinguished-looking high-rise in a Canadian city, a tribunal adjudicates the human rights of Indigenous individuals....

For many Filipinos, one word kumusta, how are you is all it takes to forge a connection with a stranger anywhere in the world. In Canadas Prairie...

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary peo...

Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German acad...

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blacknessfrom the Atlantic slave trade to...

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expec...

In Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native American Cultures, Radosaw Palonka reconstructs the development of pre-Hispanic Nati...

In Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention, Katharine Keenan argues for the reimagining of place in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the context o...

Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book re...

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war ...

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war ...

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as dons exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders, despite their associations wit...

Throughout Kingston, Jamaica, figures known as dons exercise political authority and are seen as legitimate leaders, despite their associations wit...

The volume explores how anthropological ideas emerged. First, in the writings of the ancient Greek and Roman philosophers; after that, by the Renai...

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in childrens growth and socialization,...

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in childrens growth and socialization,...

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike ...

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike ...

There is no world for whistle-blower in Italian, though you can absolutely chiudere un'occhio (turn a blind eye). In all areas of public life - com...