Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than 200 other locations across the country to at...

When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and ea...

When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensu...

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the A...

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countri...

Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to thes...

The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scien...

Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply infl...

Oral history has been employed for decades by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists to collect data about lived experience. This volume exp...

Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive ...

The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to ...

This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For re...

Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa’s public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of ci...

Suitable for both introductory anthropology and upper-division courses in cultural anthropologyThe campaign of the Cree people to protect their for...

Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper ...

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organiz...

Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and ...

Virtual America traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centu...

What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national b...

The growing threat of antisemitism, racism and Islamophobia within the European political landscape poses urgent and difficult questions. These que...

This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, do...

This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship...