Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concept...

Women are the worlds most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distor...

Published in 1937. This book, written by the well-known authority on the ethnology and archaeology of the Malay Peninsula, presents a compact and d...

The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global stage. ...

This book explores the IndiaMyanmar relationship in terms of ethnicity, security and connectivity. With the process of democratic transition in Mya...

Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginar...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced o...

North American Border Conflicts: Race, Politics, and Ethics adds to the current discussion on class, race, ethnic, and sectarian divides, not only ...

Within and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and social anthropology on the relationship between immigration st...

Youth in Superdiverse Societiesbrings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, a...

The term Swahili describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically ...

Now in its ninth edition, The Cultural Dimension of Global Business continues to provide an essential foundation for understanding the impact of cu...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

An ethnography of silver backpackers that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societies The moniker silve...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

Using an assemblage approach to study how Muslim women in Norrebro, Denmark use their phones, Karen Waltorp examines how social media complicates t...

This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings ...

Arjun Appadurais 1996 collection of essays Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization helped reshape how anthropologists, geographers...

Contributing to existing literature on ethnic studies in China, this book is a study of minority subjective experiences in China, using Uyghur Musl...

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

Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in moder...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book investigates the globalization process of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in West Africa, primarily in Benin and Ghana, based on e...

While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Perus southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a p...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

Respecifying Lab Ethnography delivers the first ethnomethodological study of current experimental physics in action, describing the disciplinary or...

For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology. Not only is there a line of noted, ...

Monsters are culturally meaningful across the world. Starting from this key premise, this book tackles monsters in the context of social change. Wr...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

This collection highlights the interplay between language and liminal places and spaces in building distinct narratives of selfhood. The book uses ...

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narrativ...

As the worlds greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games has always commanded intrigue, analysis and comment in equal measure. This book looks to c...

As the globalisation of migration intensifies, many countries have joined the international competition for the most talented, skilful, and resourc...

Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cr...

This book brings into focus the technologically augmented nature of global online communities, advancing research methods that reveal the imprint o...