Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Au...

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

When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence ...

The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity and increase the impact and beauty of ...

The Creative Ethnographer's Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity and increase the impact and beauty of ...

The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the my...

In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilg...

A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campai...

A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campai...

Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of...

A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment.Pankaj Mishra, The GuardianI'm ver...

Leading scholars use the lenses of history, sociology, political science, psychology, philosophy, religion, and literature to examine, disentangle,...

How parents approach the task of passing on religious faith and practice to their childrenHow do American parents pass their religion on to their c...

Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characteri...

Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes th...

Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather culture-like, especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a disti...

What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and...

Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media ...

Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and...

In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramon Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired 'society of affliction' that is poorly understood at the margi...

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures a...

Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country,...

This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of w...

European modernism underwent a massive change from 1930 to 1960, as war altered the cultural landscape. This account of artists and writers in Fran...

Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyo...

What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as g...

Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical res...