Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Lex Lu argues in Appearance Politics that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been an essential political instrument in China...

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 ...

Crucible of the Incurable concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and ...

Crucible of the Incurable concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and ...

Tenkin, or corporate transfers in the Japanese contexts, is distinctive by its compulsory nature and embeddedness in society. Tenkin is a mandated ...

Based on interviews and conversations in the Bosnian Federation with women survivors of war rape, children born of armed conflict, leaders of NGOs ...

This book offers a timely insight into ideas of belonging in multicultural society from a Jewish perspective, one which is largely missing from the...

In recent years, the relevance of religious freedom has spread well beyond academia, becoming a reference point for international relations, multi-...

Assessing the social integration of people with disabilities in an intra-culturally valid yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative manner is...

In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism, Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Through fie...

In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism, Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Through fie...

The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the regions history, but until now t...

Senegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in G...

The cultural developments of Early Christian Ireland have long been recognised and described. There have, however, been few attempts to date to exp...

Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats collects critical examinations of the politics, positionalit...

Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit liberal democratic politics as much...

Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit liberal democratic politics as much...

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reprodu...

This book provides an inventory of modes of inquiry for ethnographic research and presents fieldwork as an act of relational invention. It advances...

In Life beside Bars, Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement that reprodu...

This book raises questions about cultural interventions, an area of investigation somewhat overlooked in place of developing a critique of politica...

This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents cutting-edge empirical resear...

This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religio...

Qualitative methods of business research are emerging as vital tools. Business anthropology is at the heart of this movement. Although many recent ...