Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the disciplines most influential thinkers. ...

The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian project...

The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian project...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

In recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ...

Andean Waterways explores the politics of natural resource use in the Peruvian Andes in the context of climate change and neoliberal expansion. It ...

Adolescence is widely recognized as a transition period characterized by rapid developmental changes. While the transition is from childhood to adu...

Adolescence is widely recognized as a transition period characterized by rapid developmental changes. While the transition is from childhood to adu...

This simulating book gathers five lectures that ask questions of the broadest general intellectual interest: What is religion? Do other peoples hav...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreakin...

Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeThe many dimensions of gold in a shadow economyPeople employ various...

Photographer Edward Curtiss 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigeno...

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

Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land...

Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of I...

Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of...

Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan PlateauOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese gov...

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urban...

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urban...

A telling look at todays reverse migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city Even as t...

2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association One in five people in the United ...

Designed for researchers seeking new ways to explore their field and media professionals aiming to extend their practice, this filmmaking handbook ...

Throughout the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia, forest spirits share space with ancestral ruins and active agricultural plots, affecting land...

(Hi)Stories of Desire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically ...

Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth centuryfrom French colonialism to the recent transition t...

Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth centuryfrom French colonialism to the recent transition t...

Citizens of Photography explores how photography offers access to forms of citizenship beyond those available through ordinary politics. Through co...

While many non-Indigenous academic researchers have introduced the concept of reconciliation in their work, they have not adequately explored what ...

A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, ...