Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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...

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has...

The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in arti...

With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience,...

The popular narrative of globesity posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that diso...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study ...

We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in m...

The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s gave rise to the child problem, a powerful discourse of social anxiety th...

After the Exodus examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has affected the gendered subjectivities and lived experi...

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics be...

Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as...

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment...

Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping...

Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Int...

Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; f...

This book concerns the ways in which the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is embedded in Moroccan society. Approaching pilgrimage from the per...

This book traces the interplay between the public structuring and regulation of identities and the creative processes of collective identification,...

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just appl...

In this book, written between 1979 and 2020, Gilbert Lewis distills a lifetime of insights he garnered as a medical anthropologist. He asks: How do...

The field of Arab studies was dismembered during the colonial period, with ethnography working in the vernacular and the written tradition assigned...

Based upon extraordinary fieldwork including interviews with scores of informants - smugglers, victims, power elites, and profiteers who populate e...

Chinese academic traditions take zuo renself-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivationas the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary Ch...