Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In Feeding the Hustle, Jesse Dart draws on ethnographic fieldwork to consider the ways in which free food has become ubiquitous and even compulsory...

This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Us...

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers...

This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity whic...

This book presents the restoration of rural mobile cinema network in the Great Triangle region at the conjunction of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Tibet in ...

In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in N...

In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane examines how Moroccans use the mobile phone to redefine core notions of gender and space,...

Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes st...

This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locat...

This book addresses translation and interpreting with Arabic either as a source or target language. It focuses on new fields of study and professio...

What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This bo...

For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For othe...

Westerners tend to divide the political world into good democracies and bad authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit nea...

Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologi...

When we ponder about whether it is time to finish a degree, start a family, or retire, we often draw on age to make an assessment: When are we too ...

Compositions, A Life: An Autoethnography is the story of Judith Summerfields life, within the varied worlds in which she has lived. Told by a maste...

A call-to-arms for creatives to make their work widely accessible as a political and communal act. There are many ways to go public in art. Theres ...

This book focuses on the shared religious figure of Laldas/Khan, and uncovers fascinating historical and contemporary dimensions of Hindu-Muslim so...

The Cham people are thought to be descendants of the kingdoms of Champa located in central Vietnam between the 2nd and 19th centuries. Champa was o...

In Correlative Archaeology, Fumi Arakawa applies correlative thinking practices, which are derived from an East Asian view of the world that stres...

Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care deliv...

This book recounts the entangled stories of three distinctly Russian movementsstate ideology, Russian cosmism, and Eurasianismfrom their inception ...

In the decade spanning 2010-2020, social media showcased growing celebrations of lifetime milestones across multiple platforms. Utilizing theoretic...

This book provides a comprehensive cross-linguistic account of 98 typologically diverse minority languages in Southern China. A number of important...

In Gendered Fortunes, Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkeys commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate...

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defi...

This volume provides an accessible overview of cultural tourism in southern Africa. It examines the utilisation of culture in southern African tour...

Winner of the 2010 Halecki Award for Outstanding Book on the Polish Experience in America In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and ...

U.S. suburbs are typically imagined to be predominantly white communities, but this is increasingly untrue in many parts of the country. Examining ...

The topic of this monograph is kinship and affinal relations among the Karo Batak. My reason for selecting this topic is my belief that an understa...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...