Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Crisis and Coloniality at Europes Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a cri...

By taking an ethnographic approach to medical travel, this important book uses critical perspectives to understand inequalities in healthcare acces...

Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones offers a detailed ethnographic and anthropological examination of the social, cultural, linguisti...

What are our attitudes towards other animals, and how does this affect our humanity? This work of anthrozoology explores the myriad and evolving ...

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully...

Indigenous societies around the world have been historically disparaged by European explorers, colonial officials and Christian missionaries. Nowhe...

Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans...

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated rammed earth buildi...

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated rammed earth buildi...

More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the Unit...

Home cooking is crucial to our lives but it is not necessary to our survival. Over the past century, it has become an everyday choice even though i...

Science and Magic in the Modern World is a unique text that explores the role of magical thinking in everyday life. It provides an excellent psycho...

In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded fr...

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice ...

In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice ...

Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in ...

Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and ...

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions. Serial verbs, in which seve...

Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in ...

This book studies the relationship between collective rituals and three key issues of public space, discursive contexts, and normative orders, over...

The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in ...

Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen broadens the historical narrative of Indigenous, Autochthonous, and First World people wh...