Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In 1947 members of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, under the leadership of Professor Firth, made a study of kinsh...

Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas...

Staging Cultural Encounters tells stories about performances of cultural encounter and cultural exchange during the US tour of the Algerian theater...

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They...

Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in tran...

Native to a high valley in the Andes of Ecuador, the Otavalos are an indigenous people whose handcrafted textiles and traditional music are now sol...

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon ...

How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this questio...

Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race ExpertsLinda Kim examines ...

Each year in the Highland Guatemala town of Santiago Momostenango, Maya religious societies, dance teams, and cofradías perform the annual cycle o...

The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of h...

Challenging the assumption that the capitalist transformation includes a radical break with the past, this edited volume traces how historically ol...

Black Men's Studies offers an approach to understanding the lives and the self determination of men of African descent in the U.S. context. It not ...

British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontie...

Rural Appalachians in Kentucky call it "The Kentucky Way"—making a living by doing many kinds of paid and unpaid work and sharing their resources w...

This book provides an original approach to the connections of race, racism and neoliberalisation through a focus on ‘postethnic activism,’ in which...

The subject of this work is anomalies—those things that are between one state and another, neither dead nor alive, neither animal nor human. In th...

This book brings much needed attention to disabled anthropologists, making clear that “disabled” and “anthropologist” belong together. The disabled...

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, ...

Why do people hate? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the...

This volume is the first authoritative historical textbook to look at the origins, development and evolution of seaside pierrot troupes and concert...

Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out provides a look into a community that challenges common narratives about what it means to be LGBTQ and Christian in t...

The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certai...

Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to extraordinary challenges. ...