Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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...

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

The updated third edition of this book critically reconsiders the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a livel...

The updated third edition of this book critically reconsiders the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a livel...

Bus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance...

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Kory dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It was from these interactions th...

Death matters and the matters of death are initially, and to a large extent, the decaying flesh of the corpse. Cremation as a ritual practice is th...

This book comprises eight essays concerned with the ethnography of Greece, and in particular of the village of Spartokhori on the small Ionian isla...

This book is a semantic and semiotic analysis of tourism texts that represent specific groups of San (or Bushmen) in modern Botswana, and is framed...

This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the ...

While the aunt is one of the most iconic and beloved figures in popular culture, the societal role and import of real-life contemporary aunts are d...

In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated...

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological...

In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control. Exam...

Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal v...

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh.It trace...

This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand ho...

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African...

Humans, Other Beings and the Environment is an ethnographic study of the possibilities for the mutual, symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a un...

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably si...

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably si...

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates...

This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community. Drawing...

This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and newness are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested i...

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is heritage in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan post-nation. It takes its i...

The book explores contemporary selfie-taking practices; digital experiences of love, romance and infidelity; sexting rituals; self-tracking habits;...

Essential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health.The rapidand relatively recentconcentration of food animal producti...

An important book, brimming with insight. Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer Material is generous, wise, fascinating and fundamentally ...