Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation   The rich stor...

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshake...

With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo's commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on E...

For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests a...

What does -it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate--and intense...

When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideo...

The 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention to tragically relevant issues l...

First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s a...

A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion written for a broad, interdisciplinary audience Sacred ...

A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently percei...

A powerful and challenging look at what success and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers. This book challenges domin...

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospi...

In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization...

Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mothers memoir, K...

The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in tw...

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand...

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand...

In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past ...

Born in 1921, Manuel Llamojha Mitma became one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. Now Peru Is Mine combines exte...

My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it. (Esperanza). Over two million of...

Born in 1921, Manuel Llamojha Mitma became one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. Now Peru Is Mine combines exte...

Emerging at the margins of science fiction the concept of posthuman has become the most potent and pervasive movement of contemporary culture. From...

Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism provides a platform for a new politics of criticism, a collaborative ethos for a different kind...

The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology. Vandenabeele seeks ultimately ...

The figure of the Polish plumber or builder has long been a well-established icon of the British national imagination, uncovering the UK's collecti...

Soul music and country music propel American popular culture. Using ethnomusicological tools, Shonekan examines their socio-cultural influences and...

Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for ...

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributi...

This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn fro...

The contributors assess to what extent regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of socia...

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...

How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Spanning Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ir...

Drawing upon ethnographic descriptions of three grassroots ethnic organizations, which work for indigenous peoples in promoting economic livelihood...

Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book...

In postapartheid Cape TownAfrica's gay capitalmany Pentecostal men turned to ex-gay ministries in hopes of curing their homosexuality in order to c...

They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Val...