Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Palomitáy is an orphanage in highland Peru that provides a home for unmarried mothers as young as twelve years old. In their ordinary lives, these ...

 Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worl...

The Lost Ethnographies reports on the methodological lessons learnt from ethnographic projects that, viewed superficially, failed. Experienced res...

In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Cour...

In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan resi...

In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural...

This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies...

A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat produc...

Holly Swyers turns to the bleachers of Chicago's iconic Wrigley Field in this unique exploration of the ways people craft a feeling of community un...

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon hav...

This book explores recent developments in Institutional Ethnography (IE) and offers reflective accounts on how IE is being utilised and understood ...

This volume of Research in Economic Anthropology, which presents ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the s...

A performance culture of illness and wellness In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickn...

Why do contemporary art curators define their work as ethnography? How can curation illuminate the practice of contemporary anthropology? Does anth...

Drawing on a combination of interviews and auto-ethnographic data, Education, Retirement and Career Transitions for 'Black' Ex-Professional Footbal...

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The shrimp ladies, locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell ...

Speech is the exchange of information for mutual social orientation. The fundamental features of speech are simplicity of elementary structure and ...

This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South Tyrol where they practice sepa...

This is the first such collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhsta...