Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but ...

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situat...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be mod...

Animal People introduces readers to the professionalized world of animal protection from the perspective of those who consider themselves to be mod...

In Fragile Kinships, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is...

In Fragile Kinships, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging knowledge class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging knowledge class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-...

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political...

Politics of Tranquility concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of Tibetan Buddhist nuns and exploring the political...

In the early 1990s, queer anthropology represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but ...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies an...

In the early 1990s, queer anthropology represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but ...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies an...

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a...

Fans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condi...

Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a...

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, id...

In Cities Beyond Crisis, Catalina Iannone studies the rapid evolution of Iberian urban centers in the years following the 2008 financial crisis, id...

A view into the diverse culture of the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries   Although Manila, capital city of the Philippines, ...

The Fear of Erring, a combination of thick ethnography and an ethnopoetic storyline, illustrates how mistrust, ignorance, and imagination govern th...

This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case...

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives...

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives...

The idea that an external force can enter an individual and possess their body is prevalent in most cultures across the globe and throughout histor...

In this book, anthropologist and geologist Christoph Antweiler shows that geology is a special, namely historical, natural science and is therefore...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

Bringing together emerging ethnographies on kinship in South Asia, this book explores the idea of kinship as fiction in intimate relationships.Fict...

Das Buch widmet sich der Frage, weshalb Krankheitserfahrungen in der frühneuzeitlichen Lyrik zwischen 1490 und 1720 eine beispiellose Prominenz ent...

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the south...

The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather, provide justice, and regularly travel throu...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider s...

Explores informal global health action and the importance of intentions of those who volunteer In the past two decades, medical missions have gaine...

Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the p...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

Today, people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violenc...

The longest-lived stereotype of Jews with the broadest appeal is the idea that Jews are money-driven. From the fictional moneylender Shylock demand...

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history...

Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider s...