Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This unique book reveals the existence of an advanced civilization where none was known before, presenting an entirely new perspective on the cultu...

Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consc...

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi-year, systematic, empirical assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well-being change...

This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors’ role in second langu...

This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitatio...

It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important, symbolic role in the way human beings communicate, create identity, and est...

The publication of Fredrik Barth’s Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked a milestone in the conceptualization of ethnicity and ethnic groups and open...

50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incom...

For decades, evolutionary analysis was overlooked or altogether ignored by sociologists. Fears and biases persisted nearly a century after Auguste ...

Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants explores the mysterious phenomenon of ‘apomixis’, the ability of certain plants to ‘self-clone’, and its p...

Migration and Mobility (1984) examines the biological aspects of population movement, including genetic, anthropometric and psychological aspects. ...

Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisi...

Naming whiteness is becoming an increasingly pressing issue across a variety of social and political contexts. In this book, an international set o...

Examining Internet culture in the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US, this book analyzes videos which entertain both English...

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction wit...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in unde...

This volume, originally published in 1950, discusses the tribes around Lake Nyasa. The rationale for treating the tribes here as members of a singl...

Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and te...

This book examines the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats. Based on multispecies ethno...

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi-year, systematic, empirical assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well-being change...

First published in 1975. How do men come to perceive and evaluate a world in which marked inequalities of class and status exist? This book conside...

There have been two “hands” exerting influence on China’s resource allocation and economic development: one is tangible (government intervention), ...

This book examines the ongoing struggle for social justice by and for African Americans. Examining the persistent rolling back of civil and voting ...

Fighting Words! is a critical exploration of all kinds of “bad language” and how that language shapes, reinforces, or subverts identity, ideology, ...

This book focuses on how visual records – mainly on film or video – can provide data for research and presents a variety of visual projects drawn f...

Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states – from the pre- to the post- industrial – and explores...

Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that...

This book explores the Pakistani diaspora in a transatlantic context, enquiring into the ways in which young first- and second-generation Pakistani...

In this interdisciplinary study, Mónika Fodor explores how intergenerational memory narratives embedded in the speaker’s own stories impact ethnic ...

A Filtered Life is the first comprehensive ethnographic account to explore how college students create and manage multiple identities on social med...

This volume gives voice to an impressive range of Indigenous authors who share their knowledge and perspectives on issues that pertain to activism,...

Combining historical background with discussion of contemporary Native nations and their living cultures, this comprehensive text introduces studen...