Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive pi...

In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral cata...

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In h...

The Parashakthi Temple in Pontiac, Michigan serves as a site of worship for the Hindu goddess Karumariamman, whose origins are in South India. In h...

Onda compares Japans traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nations societal fabric, with those of other countries across Asia,...

This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relationsbetween and among o...

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history ...

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history ...

Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss o...

Set on the Italian island of Sardinia, Sing Me Back Home explores language and culture through songwriting as an ethnographic method. Based on thir...

In the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the Central Himalayas, Hindu deities are ever present in the lives of devotees. Through ritual practic...

In the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the Central Himalayas, Hindu deities are ever present in the lives of devotees. Through ritual practic...

In recent years, migration across urban centers and national borders has radically reshaped West African societies and sparked a global debate on t...

In recent years, migration across urban centers and national borders has radically reshaped West African societies and sparked a global debate on t...

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fa...

This book is written against the backdrop of heightened racism and xenophobia in the contemporary world. It elucidates how race operates in raciall...

Investigates attitudes toward and relationships with the Indian Union from those in frontier states, who at times rose up in opposition from centra...

Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far fro...

Believed to be one of the earliest textiles, felt has been made by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia for over 2,500 years and the craft still thr...

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu. How can mass...

When geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Pe...

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru??s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a...

Social Change in the South Pacific (1957) summarises the results of applying historical and contemporary fieldwork methods to the analysis of the p...

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominan...

Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume I, the first of a two volume set, presents a rich and unique collection of global pers...

Reimagining Europe comprises a series of contributions which address, in various ways, the relationship between Europe and continental philosophy/p...

Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by ...

Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and tes...

A modern-day bard. Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emana...

This book studies children's wellbeing from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel. It examines how the meeting of cultures with...

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