Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Public theology is an emerging constructive tool. In its inception, public theology was largely contextualized as the public church. However, this ...

Across many social and commercial domains, governments regulate the official names used to identify individuals, groups, places, companies & pr...

What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ...

What is food and why does it matter? Bringing together the most innovative, cutting-edge scholarship and debates, this reader provides an excellen...

This two-volume set CCIS 2278-2279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography...

This two-volume set CCIS 2278-2279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Quantitative Ethnography...

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships Ethiopia stretches her han...

An exploration of how contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity preserves and protects sacred ideas and relationships Ethiopia stretches her han...

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements What does desire have to revea...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements What does desire have to revea...

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent...

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelical Christians and thousands of evangelical congregations and orga...

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse. The climate change crisis has b...

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local ec...

Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local ec...

This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent hole in the wall ethnic ...

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cu...

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a c...

In Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and ...

Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or Wh...

This volume charts a new frontier of applied ethnomusicology by highlighting the role of music in both inciting and resolving a spectrum of social ...