Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The after-hours club is a fixture of the African American ghetto. It is a semisecret, unlicensed spot where regulars and tourists mingle with hustl...

Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate studentsEnvironmental anthropology is at its best when firmly ground...

Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments uni...

What will it take to build high-performing, purpose-oriented public sector organizations in India? In answering this question, the voices of India'...

This Palgrave Pivot explores the experiences of nonreligious asylum seekers in Northern Europe. While religious persecution is often cited as a rea...

R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descript...

Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this volume brings together diverse voices, meth...

From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world ...

A profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices In this voyage through th...

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, ...

The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, ...

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglect In the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, ...

The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, ...

This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global in...

Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into Latin Americas largest social movement as i...

This book intersects marginality, politics, and policies by focusing on the narratives of selective marginalised groups within India. Encouraging i...

This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of adva...

In The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, Gerald Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see at least half of...

The anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown, Sierra Leone, when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit. In the Time of Ebola is his account ...