Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects h...

Corps de ballet literally means the body of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group o...

Corps de ballet literally means the body of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group o...

A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit spheres expansion has helpedand hinderedthe LGBT cause What if the very structure on which social ...

A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit spheres expansion has helpedand hinderedthe LGBT cause What if the very structure on which social ...

Japanese society is frequently held up to the Western world as a model of harmony and efficiency, but the price it pays tends to be overlooked. In ...

Cosmopolitan Sexuality articulates the ethnographic and anthropological studies of varied embodied projects in Indian metropolises. With particular...

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white k...

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have los...

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet indu...

The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of working life, home life, and everyday personal life driving us to engage mor...

The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of working life, home life, and everyday personal life driving us to engage mor...

This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulation...

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who l...

A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable developmentMuch of the debate over sustainable development revol...

Derweil sich diverse erziehungswissenschaftliche Studien mit dem Thema der interaktiven Konstruktion und Bearbeitung von Differenzen in schulischen...

Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of c...

By the end of 1985, Latin Americans owed their foreign creditors $368 billion. That was nearly $1,000 for every man, woman, and child between the R...

What happens in globalised social contexts if people identify with a language that is not traditionally considered to be their language? This uniqu...

In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dang...

Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extor...

Over the past fifteen years in Mexico, more than 450,000 people have been murdered and 110,000 more have been disappeared. In Sovereignty and Extor...

Genesis is unlike any other book in the Bible. Indeed, it is unlike any other book you are likely to come across. Most people will be aware of many...

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet indu...

Dialogue between a medical anthropologist and a Cherokee linguist about health, well-being, and environmental issuesSounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health...

The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs to create and preserve a Catawba ident...

Winner, 2023 Clifford Geertz Prize in Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of ReligionThe Jahriyya Sufisa primarily Sinophone ord...

The original 1906 edition of The Book of Tea is one of the classic texts found on the desks of artists, poets, teaists and Zen Buddhists around the...

This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everyday situations of crises and crimes through an i...