Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples f...

Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern Chinapolitical, cultural, and economichas radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy d...

 This volume collates and examines literary and screened representations of what the editors term border masculinities. It seeks to understand masc...

Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are...

A compilation of historical documents written by Europeans during the colonization of southwest FloridaWhen Europeans arrived in southwest Florida ...

More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, There are few major subjects about which men know so little, ye...

Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted...

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

This volume examines the varied ways in which the senses were perceived afresh during the Enlightenment. In addition to introducing new philosophi...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of Han-ness, revealing the nuances of what Han iden...

Could the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a nation of immig...

Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors...

From Stage to Studio: Performances versus Recordings in Classical Music presents a cultural study of classical music-making through the analysis of...

Calling in the Soul (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on e...

At the heart of capitalism lies the idea of homo economicus: an ever-rational human being motivated by self-interest which arguably leads societies...

Focusing on Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from European colonial rule and the first in the world to ratify th...

In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure...

In twenty-first-century China, socialist educational traditions have given way to practices that increasingly emphasize the individual. This volume...