Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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Indigenous societies around the world have been historically disparaged by European explorers, colonial officials and Christian missionaries. Nowhe...

Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans...

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated rammed earth buildi...

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated rammed earth buildi...

More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the Unit...

Home cooking is crucial to our lives but it is not necessary to our survival. Over the past century, it has become an everyday choice even though i...

Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excellent psycho...

In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded fr...

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice ...

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice ...

Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in ...

Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and ...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in ...

This book studies the relationship between collective rituals and three key issues of public space, discursive contexts, and normative orders, over...

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in ...

Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen broadens the historical narrative of Indigenous, Autochthonous, and First World people wh...

This book delves into the complexities of masculinity, mental health, and cultural identity among young Bangladeshi-Canadian men. Employing an anth...

In order to better understand the political conditions of the Arabic language in Israel, a comparison with the political conditions of Arabic in th...

With their dramatic descriptions of black masses and cannibalistic feasts, the records generated by the Basque witch-craze of 160914 provide us wit...

Marina Mahathir continues to make her mark as a community leader, writer and outspoken commentator on social and political affairs. She is also the...

In Truth and Power in American Archaeology, archaeologist and ethnohistorian Alice Beck Kehoe presents her key writings where archaeological fieldw...

In Truth and Power in American Archaeology, archaeologist and ethnohistorian Alice Beck Kehoe presents her key writings where archaeological fieldw...

THE COMMONALITY OF HUMANS THROUGH ART: HOW ART CONNECTS MANKIND THROUGH THE AGES explores how art has linked different cultures over the past 30,00...

Kulkul presents her ethnographic work with Turkish Muslim women in Berlin as evidence that community is not an entity but is produced by instrument...

Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form church in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To wha...

Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form church in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To wha...

Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage...

A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the cropscapethe people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop   Human...

Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities, and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open wayswit...

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the f...

India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medici...