Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world ...

Kitsch-or tacky, simplistic art and art forms-is used by various political actors to shape and limit what we know about ourselves, what we know abo...

The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and det...

The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial ...

Some objects stand out as personal and important to us. A packed suitcase, an inherited vase, the remains from a humanitarian aid package - things ...

Doing Anthropological Research provides a practical toolkit for carrying out research. It works through the process chapter by chapter, from the pl...

This long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitione...

Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book prizeThe potential of floriculture grows at Lake NaivashaKenya supplies m...

This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological...

Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer Chimerica unpacks the ways in whic...

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those ...

As the university transformed itself into a center of innovation, and biotechnology became a billion-dollar industry, commercialization of universi...

As the university transformed itself into a center of innovation, and biotechnology became a billion-dollar industry, commercialization of universi...

Philosophical thinking allows itself to be nourished by seemingly non-committal exercises of thought but at the same time seeks forms of irrefutabl...

The untold story of South Americas most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South Ame...

In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures ...

Explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. This book reveals how global transformations are expressed i...

This book informs about culture and the ways of thinking in Europe in the late Middle Ages. The concept of culture follows the intention of Pragmat...

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her c...

There are two prevailing myths about Japanese society: first, that it has a successful elderly welfare system and second, that it has a successful ...