Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to lif...

Elliot Fratkin shares the story of his early anthropological fieldwork in Kenya in the 1970s. Using his fieldnotes and letters home to bring to lif...

Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of te...

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for ...

Although much has been written in recent years on what museum visitors actually experience, there is little research-backed guidance available for ...

Explorations in Cultural Anthropology is a collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological...

Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study...

In the last decade, a new conception of culture has emerged in sociology, out of the ashes of modernism and post-modernism, that has the potential ...

If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa examines Kampala's university-based sexual economy wherein f...

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the...

Deportation limbo offers a political ethnography of deportation enforcement in Denmark and Sweden. It takes place in a time when deportation has em...

The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living toget...

This book draws on an in-depth ethnographic study to explore the meanings and consequences of race and ethnicity in daily life within two Finnish m...

Throughout the twentieth century, the question of culture was a central pillar of social scientific thought. Today, however, the concept has disapp...

Traveller-specific architecture in Ireland and permanently temporary sites in the UK embody an insoluble contradiction - as systems of control, pol...

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing num...

More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing num...

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology is a comprehensive inter- and intradisciplinary survey of the field of feminist anthropology. It ha...

What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Drawing on an ethnographic study with cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the UK, this b...