Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributo...

Noting the pervasiveness of the adoption of responsibility as a core ideal of neoliberal governance, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities...

Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us wit...

Using engaging stories and clear writing, HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Tenth Edition, introduces cultural anthropology withi...

Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, p...

On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods continues the project that the influential anthropologist, philosopher, and science studies theorist Bruno L...

Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible ...

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication Intercultural discourse and communication is emerging as an important area of research in...

Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the...

Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program for monographs. Vis...

Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of Americ...

Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and s...

Long Live Atahualpa is an innovative ethnographic study of indigenous political movements against discrimination in modern Ecuador. Exploring the p...

In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air...

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...

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...

The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one mans literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about t...

The third edition of Race: A Philosophical Introduction continues to provide the definitive guide to a topic of major contemporary importance. In t...

This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistic...

In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theo...

Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is...

In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit h...

What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stor...

In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 peopl...

Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately ...

It is not possible to understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s, especiall...

This is the first major study of a Sikh community in Central Punjab to appear in the modern anthropological literature. Perhaps because this histor...

This title focuses on the dramatic process underlying the development of cultural mystique in the articulation of elite organization. The symbolic ...

How do gay and lesbian teachers negotiate their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually...

Ethnocriticism moves cultural critique to the boundaries that exist between cultures. The boundary traversed in Krupat's dexterous new book is the ...

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...