Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

This book shows that screens dont just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physica...

Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by a...

This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars.In the twentieth century Europes borde...

This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. It examines religious expression from a cross-cu...

The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local population...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.Challenging mat...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It inve...

This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they naviga...

Focusing on the conflict and coordination between social development and political order in social governance, this book investigates the causes, e...

The Materiality of Nothing explores the invisible, intangible and transient materials and objects of everyday life and the relationships we have wi...

Brute. Cockroach. Lice. Vermin. People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish...

This book historicises and analyses the increasing incidence of xenophobia and nativism in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It examines ho...

How humans living amid an abundance of diverse flora and fauna help us rethink conservationFamous for their geographic isolation and high proportio...

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. In Truffles and Trash, Kelly Alexander reveals i...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships be...

Silence is crucial to our social world. Responding to the growing scholarly interest in social sciences and humanities for more in-depth engagement...

This transdisciplinary and theoretically innovative edited volume contains seven original, research-led chapters that explore complex intersections...

This book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars w...

Language constitutes a very sensitive nexus between the concepts of territory and community. Though a fundamental issue in contemporary societies, ...

First published in 1930, this book sought to explain to western readers the vital necessity of approaching the Indian problem from the emerging nat...

This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of distortion - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and t...