Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book comprises eight essays concerned with the ethnography of Greece, and in particular of the village of Spartokhori on the small Ionian isla...

This book is a semantic and semiotic analysis of tourism texts that represent specific groups of San (or Bushmen) in modern Botswana, and is framed...

This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the ...

While the aunt is one of the most iconic and beloved figures in popular culture, the societal role and import of real-life contemporary aunts are d...

In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated...

The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological...

In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control. Exam...

Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal v...

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh.It trace...

This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand ho...

A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at...

A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powers For decades, African...

Humans, Other Beings and the Environment is an ethnographic study of the possibilities for the mutual, symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a un...

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably si...

The chain of linked cultures of the southern coast of New Guinea, from the Asmat in the west to the Papuan Gulf in the east all share remarkably si...

Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates...

This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community. Drawing...

This book examines the ways in which political discourses of crisis and newness are (re)produced, circulated, naturalised, received and contested i...

This edited collection challenges and re-imagines what is heritage in Britain as a globalised, vernacular, cosmopolitan post-nation. It takes its i...

The book explores contemporary selfie-taking practices; digital experiences of love, romance and infidelity; sexting rituals; self-tracking habits;...