Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ron...

How middle-class families in Nepal pursue “well-being” in a rapidly changing social landscape Modern Dharma asks how Nepalese people live dharma, a...

Capitalism has long been idealized as a symbol of success, power, and free enterprise. In reality, while capitalism has brought wealth and success ...

Exploring psychedelic spiritual practices and afterlife beliefs among the Mississippi mound cultures• Examines the Path of Souls or Trail of Ghosts...

The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council’s generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project (FRIPROHUMSAM 27...

Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? Recorded history began in the ancient Near East, ...

Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices a...

How middle-class families in Nepal pursue “well-being” in a rapidly changing social landscape Modern Dharma asks how Nepalese people live dharma, a...

For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their wo...

Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potentia...

Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the...

This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation” The Senegalese p...

In the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, the disturbing events of the twenty-four-year-long Indonesian occupation ...

Life After Guns explores how ex-combatants and other post-war youth negotiated a depleted and difficult social and cultural landscape in the years ...

Teraanga is a pivotal concept from Senegalese culture embodying hospitality, generosity, and respect. In Teraanga Republic, Emily Jenan Riley delve...

The Acehnese, a Muslim people of Sumatra, fought Dutch attempts to colonize them for forty years. After its "pacification," Acehnese society evolve...

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ron...

While much has been written on the growth of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services in India, little is known about the people who wor...

"In the age of globalization we are no longer home alone. Migration brings other worlds into our own just as the global reach of the media transmit...

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has be...

As emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, automated, and robotic technologies become increasingly prominent in our possible futures, t...