Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Can human rights be truly universal, without becoming a subtle form of Western imperialism or restricting the rights of women, minorities, LGBT peo...

Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss nei...

Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss nei...

This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st cent...

The period between the 16th and 18th centuries witnessed the expansion of European travel, trade and colonization around the globe, resulting in gr...

The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present. Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore ne...

This volume presents a comprehensive and collaborative survey of how people, individually and within collective entities, thought about, experience...

The period from the 1920s to the present is marked by the rise of eugenics, the expansion and hardened enforcement of immigration laws, legal apart...

This volume covers the cultural history of race in the long 19th century the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which ...

The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. ...

How we sense and move our bodies shapes how we relate with each other. Current socio-economic practices are reducing generative qualities of relati...

Most people, when thinking about Jews, consider only two categories: the Ashkenazim of European origin, and the Sephardim (often being lumped toget...

This book aims to provide comprehensive ethnographic documentation of pastoralist childhood and child learning, based on the authors long-term fiel...

This edited collection brings together a range of experiences from the field, largely in the context of CSCW and HCI. It focuses specifically on th...

It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported ...

This book delves into the development trajectories of rural Europe, with a specific focus on Italy. The book addresses the key challenges rural com...

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanitys evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species greatest successes and failures. Yuv...

A groundbreaking critical discourse analysis of everyday language, reveals the underlying racist stereotypes circulating in American culture In The...

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazils conservative turn from 2010 to 2018. For decades, LGBT+ activists a...

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazils conservative turn from 2010 to 2018. For decades, LGBT+ activists a...

Personal psychological growth Why are some people able to promote their own psychological growth and change toward complexity while others not? Is ...