Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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

Bringing together scholars from art history, visual studies, and related disciplines, this edited volume asks why Trumpism looks the way it does an...

Dieser Band bringt Autorinnen und Autoren aus der Ethnologie und Soziologie in ein Gespräch, um ein umfassendes praxistheoretisches Programm zu ent...

Revealing the resiliency of Nahua culture and language while highlighting the adaptations and changes they have undergone over the centuries, The N...

This book interrogates the transnational field of (anti-)corruption and elite crime. Using the lens of luxury, art, and antiquities, the contributo...

This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis. Demonstrating the relevance of phenomenology, it p...

This volume provides readers with accounts of the contemporary consequences of the Eurocentric Western model of racialized power and extractivist d...

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of city craft. Skatebo...

A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseC...

This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For t...

In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media indust...

In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media indust...

The book is a study of the emergence of market economy with modern economic institutions in the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and ancient Egyp...

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range...

The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both preca...

In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its iconic place in First World urban culture, Anglo popular music, and the Euro-Am...

History is not one story, but many. In Rethinking Japans Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated...

Whithorn: An Economy of People is an exploration of a unique face-to-face society in Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It paints a picture of...

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essent...

Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story o...

Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Secon...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cu...

In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range...

Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces i...

In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanaly...

In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanaly...

Following the socialist revolution, a colossal shift in everyday realities began in the 1920s and 30s in the former Russian empire. Faced with the ...

The volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-spe...

This book, at the nexus of migration and urban studies, sheds new light on a long-neglected group of transmigrants and the global city of Tokyo. Us...