Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he he...

A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to Califo...

In this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden infl...

In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lend...

Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precar...

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed cult expert of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called exc...

Food systems in Indonesia and worldwide have experienced major transformations in the wake of agricultural modernisation. Once intact eco-systems h...

This study of Jewish cultural innovation in early twentieth-century France highlights the complexity and ambivalence of Jewish identity and self-de...

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the interdisciplinary field of ethnosciences, highlighting its role as a vital link between traditiona...

Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid...

Uncertain Citizenship explores how Bolivian migrants to Chile experience citizenship in their daily lives. Intraregional migration is on the rise i...

A Companion to Folklore contains an original and comprehensive set of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. This stat...

With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern worl...

Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female...

International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations between transnationalism, law, and culture The recent surge of right-wing popul...

Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysi...

A lavishly illustrated selection of highlights from the Art Institute of Chicagos extraordinary collection of the arts of Africa Featuring a select...

Wastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecutio...

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

Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical ...

How the booming Islamic finance industry became an ultramodern hybrid of religion and marketsIn just fifty years, Islamic finance has grown from a ...

What happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not thousands of m...

When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a m...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community...

In Elders, Shades, and Women, Richard T. Curley describes the ceremonial life of a Nilotic community in northern Uganda and traces the alterations ...

Can subalterns transform themselves into members of the elite, and what does it take to do so? And how do those efforts reveal the nature of ethnic...

Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to...

The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention t...

What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the global war on terror now stretches i...