Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

The evolution and spread of Protestantism has been shaped largely by its focus on reading and interpreting the Bible. For evangelists in late-ninet...

Brazilian Bodies, and their Choreographies of Identification retraces the presence of a particular way of swaying the body that, in Brazil, is comm...

Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative ...

An industrial city on the outskirts of Stockholm, Södertälje is the global capital of the Syriac Orthodox Christian diaspora, an ethnic and religio...

American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the...

On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins dÉole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of ...

Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and visions for an inclusive and equitable future.As psychedelics and psychedelic-a...

What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a white people and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and ...

How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality Womens lands are intentional, collective commu...

How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality Womens lands are intentional, collective commu...

Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called art are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada....

Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges (uni)linear id...

Based on ethnographic research among contemporary Pagan communities in Southern Italy (Salento, Apulia), The Spider Dance challenges (uni)linear id...

This handbook takes a comprehensive approach to studying and understanding modern slavery, particularly forced labour and human trafficking. It con...

Throw Your Voice is a story of loss and recovery. It relates how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Mo...

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eki...

Throw Your Voice is a story of loss and recovery. It relates how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Mo...

The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eki...

Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called art are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada....

Elizabeth A. Povinellis inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adigethe region where fami...

Elizabeth A. Povinellis inheritance was passed down not through blood or soil but through a framed map of Trentino, Alto Adigethe region where fami...

In scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with mass protests. While the country is lauded for its peaceful...

In scenes reminiscent of the apartheid era, 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with mass protests. While the country is lauded for its peaceful...

This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and systematic description and analysis of the language, culture, and traditions of the Sierra Leone Kr...

Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections fr...

Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections fr...

Scholars from Anthropology, History, and Literary and Cultural Studies present their current research on culture and violence in the Andean region....

A long-term view of continuity and change in a rural Amazonian communityIn Chronicling Amazon Town, Richard Pace and Helena Lima bring together the...

This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and of its critical importance in and for contemporary cities. It examines how the c...

With a focus on Honduras, James J. Phillips explores the deeper causes of the massive emigration of Central Americans to the United States. Going b...