Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Investigates attitudes toward and relationships with the Indian Union from those in frontier states, who at times rose up in opposition from centra...

Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far fro...

Believed to be one of the earliest textiles, felt has been made by the nomadic peoples of Central Asia for over 2,500 years and the craft still thr...

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu. How can mass...

When geologist Roseanne Chambers made her first visit to Machu Picchu in 2006, it sparked a deep fascination with the geology and culture of the Pe...

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru??s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a...

Social Change in the South Pacific (1957) summarises the results of applying historical and contemporary fieldwork methods to the analysis of the p...

Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominan...

Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume I, the first of a two volume set, presents a rich and unique collection of global pers...

Reimagining Europe comprises a series of contributions which address, in various ways, the relationship between Europe and continental philosophy/p...

Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by ...

Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and tes...

A modern-day bard. Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge about the old stories, it emana...

This book studies children's wellbeing from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel. It examines how the meeting of cultures with...

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A long-time Austinite and journalists exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texascharting the shifts within its vibrant mu...

This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected gre...

Black women in the department of Chocó, Colombia, respond to the violence endemic to their region with activism and storytelling. Tania Lizarazo fo...

As artificial reproductive technologies become available to populations that have previously not had access to them, this book asks how reproductio...