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eBook available July 2012
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The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available May 2011
The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)
eBook available June 2019
24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available July 2010
Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
eBook available May 2020
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Maffi, I.

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party ‘Ennahdha’ allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women’s right to abortion. This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body in Tunisia during this time.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available August 2013
About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies
April 2008
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism
December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
April 2008
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

Worsley, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies

The Case of France and Belgium

Merchant, J. (ed)

Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. The contributors to this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
June 2015
Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population and how social experience leads to a decision for — or against — having an IVF.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available April 2011
Adventures in Aidland

The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

Mosse, D. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
June 2005
Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Hobart, A. & Kapferer, B. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available December 2017
Affective States

Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)

The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
July 1996
African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

Fowler, I. & Zeitlyn, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
February 2022
Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Hannerz, U.

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian Issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion
July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
eBook available February 2018
After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available July 2020
After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford

Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available April 2010
After the Cult

Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
April 2011
After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

Feuchtwang, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)
March 2020
After the Pink Tide

Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
June 2023
Against Better Judgment

Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)

Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
eBook available December 2016
Against Exoticism

Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
December 2008
Against Machismo

Young Adult Voices in Mexico City

Ramirez, J.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
March 2005
Ageing Without Children

European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks

Kreager, P. & Schröder-Butterfill, E. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available March 2021
Agent of Change

The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past

Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)

Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
June 2015
Aging and the Digital Life Course

Prendergast, D. & Garattini, C. (eds)

Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines how technological developments are redefining experiences and expectations around growing older in the twenty-first century. This book explores the key themes of social media, robotics, chronic disease and dementia management, care-giving, gaming, migration and data inheritance.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
May 2003
Aging in Today's World

Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician

Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology
eBook available May 2009
Alarming Reports

Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

Arno, A.

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
September 2023
Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available August 2018
All or None

Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt

Sánchez Hall, A.

All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2021
All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2011
The Allure of Capitalism

An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis

Røyrvik, E. A.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2021
Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula

An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia

Matošević, A.

Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
October 2023
The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Boyer, V.

By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available September 2019
Ambiguous Childhoods

Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village

Clemensen, N.

Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies
eBook available May 2012
Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
eBook available December 2016
America Observed

On an International Anthropology of the United States

Dominguez, V. & Habib, J. (eds)

There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
July 2014
Americans in Tuscany

Charity, Compassion, and Belonging

Trundle, C.

In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means through which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. In exploring the often-ignored role of charitable action in migrant community formation, Trundle contributes to anthropological theories of gift giving, compassion, and reflexivity.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available March 2023
Amnesia Remembered

Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact

Aycock, J.

As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
July 2000
And Keep Your Powder Dry

An Anthropologist Looks at America

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available April 2018
Animism beyond the Soul

Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge

Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds)

The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available August 2012
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra

Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia

Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E., & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2011
The Annoying Difference

The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World

Hervik, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available September 2022
An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
June 2013
An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World

An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge

Corsín Jiménez, A.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2011
Anthropologies of Education

A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling

Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2016
The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Wullf, H. (ed)

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an anthropologist’s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction. This book explores how writing shapes anthropologists and their discipline.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
October 2000
Anthropologists in a Wider World

Essays on Field Research

Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology
July 2003
Anthropology & Law

Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available November 2003
Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies
eBook available January 2015
Anthropology & Philosophy

Dialogues on Trust and Hope

Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
August 2004
Anthropology and Consultancy

Issues and Debates

Stewart, P. & Strathern, A. (eds)

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available January 2021
Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2014
Anthropology and Nostalgia

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Anthropologists are realizing that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of identity, politics and history making. Contributors to this volume explore nostalgic narratives and practices in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2012
Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available February 2017
Anthropology and Public Service

The UK Experience

MacClancy, J. (ed)

Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and their contributions to prison governance.

Subject: Applied Anthropology
January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available May 2008
Anthropology as Ethics

Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

Evens, T. M. S.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2014
Anthropology Now and Next

Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz

Eriksen, T. H., Garsten, C. & Randeria, S. (eds)

The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a world of global connectedness and accelerated change.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available March 2016
The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility

Dolan, C. & Rajak, D. (eds)

The collection traces the connections and conflicts between the local politics of corporate engagement and the global movements of CSR, revealing the ways in which social and environmental relations are transformed through the regimes of ethical capitalism.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
August 2011
The Anthropology of Empathy

Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

Hollan, D. W. & Throop, C. J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)

This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available August 2009
The Anthropology of Moralities

Heintz, M. (Ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2017
The Anthropology of the Fetus

Biology, Culture, and Society

Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, all with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available October 2008
An Anthropology of War

Views from the Frontline

Waterston, A. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available March 2023
Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism

Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology

Ferraz de Matos, P.

Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract

Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Højer, L.

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2005
Applications of Anthropology

Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century

Pink, S. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology
eBook available March 2014
Arab Spring

Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Fosshagen, K. (ed)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
June 1997
The Arakmbut of Amazonian Peru

Gray, A.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available June 2018
Archaeogaming

An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Reinhard, A.

Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
March 2002
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

Parkinson, W. A. (ed)

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. This volume explores social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2022
Arctic Abstractive Industry

Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Mason, A. (ed)

Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available January 2023
The Art of Fate Calculation

Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng

Homola, S.

The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
eBook available July 2019
Articulate Necrographies

Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead

Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies Literary Studies
eBook available November 2018
Artifak

Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu

DeBlock, H.

Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, and in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in the context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
eBook available October 2020
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia

Values, Family, and Identity

Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
September 2015
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase

Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds

Hampshire, K. & Simpson, B. (eds)

The “First Phase” of Assisted Reproductive Technologies followed the first “test-tube baby” birth, when treatments were available only to the wealthy. In the “Second Phase,” these treatments became available to a wider, but still elite, population. This volume explores the “Third Phase,” as ARTs are becoming a standard part of reproductive healthcare.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
August 2009
Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes

Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies

Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Inhorn, M. C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
June 2013
Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

Strecker, I. & Verne, M. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Media Studies
May 2014
Asymmetrical Conversations

Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries

Naraindas, H., Quack, J., & Sax, W. S. (eds)

“This is a compelling and intellectually satisfying volume that offers important new ethnographic work which, I would argue, revitalizes studies of medical pluralism…an important project by some of the most outstanding and well-known scholars in these areas of study — several of whose names readers will recognize and inspire interest in the volume.” · Murphy Halliburton, City University of New York

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available January 2023
At Home in a Nursing Home

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

Zhang, A. R. Y.

Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
August 2000
At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

Gray, J. N.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2015
At Home in the Okavango

White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging

Gressier, C.

An ethnography of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their European descent in a postcolonial African state, the white Batswana have developed values and practices that allow them high levels of belonging.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2019
At Home on the Waves

Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today

King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available November 2019
Atlantic Perspectives

Places, Spirits and Heritage

Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
eBook available July 2018
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora

Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition

Burke, P.

This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available April 2021
Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries

Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)

Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse. The chapters are contextualized by a strongly theorized introduction that considers how notions of authenticity and authorship have developed in Western societies too.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
June 1998
Autonomy

Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists

Rao, A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2018
Back to the Postindustrial Future

An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

Ringel, F.

Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
July 2002
Bali and Beyond

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism

Yamashita, S.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2018
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes

Angé, O.

Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available November 2019
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

Fahy, J.

Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals, and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
December 2001
Bedouin Century

Education and Development among the Negev Tribes in the Twentieth Century

Abu-Rabia, A.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
June 2013
Bedouin of Mount Sinai

An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy

Marx, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available August 2018
Being a Sperm Donor

Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

Mohr, S.

Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
May 2014
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Mühlfried, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
eBook available May 2016
Being and Becoming

Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra

Elkholy, R.

In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra

Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century

Bille, M.

Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies
eBook available May 2017
Being Godless

Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion

Blanes, R. L. & Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (eds)

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available October 2013
Being Human, Being Migrant

Senses of Self and Well-Being

Grønseth, A. S. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2018
Being-Here

Placemaking in a World of Movement

Lems, A.

By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
April 2012
The Benefit of the Gift

Social Organization and Expanding Networks of Interaction in the Western Great Lakes Archaic

Hill, M. A.

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction in this period.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2010
Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

Weszkalnys, G.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2021
The Best We Share

Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Brumann, C.

As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
September 2023
Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Bravo Díaz, A.

During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available May 2010
Beyond Writing Culture

Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices

Zenker, O. & Kumoll, K. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
October 2011
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism

Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000

Lindenfeld, D. & Richardson, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available July 2020
Beyond Filial Piety

Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)

This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
February 2003
Beyond Rationalism

Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
February 2015
Beyond the Lens of Conservation

Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

Keller, E.

This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available May 2021
Beyond the Veil

Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying

Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)

Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available January 2020
Big Capital in an Unequal World

The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

Armytage, R.

Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2021
Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

Sutton, D. E.

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
October 2016
Biomedical Entanglements

Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society

Herbst, F. A.

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
eBook available March 2009
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development

Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century

O'Kane, D. & Hepner, T. R. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2020
Birds of Passage

Hunting and Conservation in Malta

Falzon, M.-A.

Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available August 2014
Blood and Fire

Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor

Kasmir, S. & Carbonella, A. (eds)

Six historical ethnographies stemming from fieldwork around the world offer a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor. The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available January 2013
Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
August 2007
Blood and Oranges

Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece

Lawrence, C. M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies
May 2005
Bodies of Evidence

Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus

Sant Cassia, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
November 2009
The Body in Asia

Turner, B. & Yangwen, Z. (Eds.)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available August 2013
The Body in Balance

Humoral Medicines in Practice

Horden, P. & Hsu, E. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available April 2017
Border Aesthetics

Concepts and Intersections

Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)

The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.

Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2013
Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
June 2020
Borders across Healthcare

Moral Economies of Healthcare and Migration in Europe

Sahraoui, N. (ed)

Borders across Healthcare explores contemporary moral economies of the healthcare-migration nexus through a scalar and relational perspective. The volume documents the many ways in which borders come to disrupt healthcare settings and illuminates how judgements of a health-related deservingness become increasingly important, producing hierarchies that undermine a universal right to healthcare.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Mobility Studies Sociology
eBook available November 2019
Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer

Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend

Mallios, S.

Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)
November 2003
The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Stacul, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2008
Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

Kirby, P. W. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2019
Bourdieu and Social Space

Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Reed-Danahay, D.

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology
April 1999
Braving the Street

The Anthropology of Homelessness

Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2019
Brazilian Steel Town

Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class

Mollona, M.

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available May 2015
Breaking Boundaries

Varieties of Liminality

Horvath, A., Thomassen, B., & Wydra, H. (eds)

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. This book explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2016
Breaking Rocks

Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa

Trapido, J.

Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
June 2005
Breast Feeding and Sexuality

Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Mabilia, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
March 2008
'Brothers' or Others?

Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt

Fábos, A. H.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2018
Burgundy

The Global Story of Terroir

Demossier, M.

Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
August 2015
Bush Bound

Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

Gaibazzi, P.

Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these “stayers,” who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
December 2001
Cameroon's Tycoon

Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences

Chilver, E. M. & Röschenthaler, U. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available September 2021
The Camino de Santiago

Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism

Murray, M.

Pilgrimage, as a global activity linked to the sacred, speaks to the special significance of persons, places and events. This book relates these sentiments to the curatorship of the Camino de Santiago that comprises a lattice of European pilgrimage itineraries converging at Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?

An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Shokeid, M.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
eBook available April 2013
Capricious Borders

Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey

Demetriou, O.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2018
Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Smith, A. A.

Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2018
Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Hromadžić, A. & Palmberger, M. (eds)

With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available September 2018
Cash Transfers in Context

An Anthropological Perspective

Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)

Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
December 2005
The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ellen, R.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
January 2001
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
December 2004
Categories of Self

Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual

Celtel, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available September 2021
Cattle Poetics

How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Eczet, J.-B.

Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
December 2005
Celebrating Transgression

Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Cultures
A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping

Rao, U. & Hutnyk, J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
May 2006
Centering the Margin

Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands

Horstmann, A. & Wadley, R. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
November 2012
Central America in the New Millennium

Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy

Burrell, J. L. & Moodie, E. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2010
Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2011
The Challenge of Epistemology

Anthropological Perspectives

Toren, C. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2009
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa

Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands

Schlee, G. & Watson, E. E. (eds)

Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2006
Changing Properties of Property

Benda-Beckmann, K. von, Benda-Beckmann, F. von & Wiber, M. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender

Shaw, A. & Ardener, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology
May 2023
Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology
eBook available September 2009
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

McCourt, C. (ed)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available March 2020
The Children of Gregoria

Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family

Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.

The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies
eBook available October 2017
Children of the Camp

The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya

Grayson, C.-L.

This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
eBook available July 2022
Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Hsu, E.

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available March 2016
Choreographies of Landscape

Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park

Ness, S. A.

This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
November 2012
Christian Politics in Oceania

Tomlinson, M. & McDougall, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2016
'City of the Future'

Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

Laszczkowski, M.

The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2019
Civil–Military Entanglements

Anthropological Perspectives

Sørensen, B. R. & Ben-Ari, E. (eds)

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. This volume traces out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements which allow for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
eBook available September 2011
Civilizations Beyond Earth

Extraterrestrial Life and Society

Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)

“For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Archaeology
eBook available October 2019
Claiming Homes

Confronting Domicide in Rural China

Bruckermann, C.

Explores how ‘care’, defined as ‘work done on behalf of others’, allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China’s politics of place and localization of class.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2010
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

Lem, W. & Gardiner Barber, P. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
June 2023
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics

Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available October 2021
Collaborative Happiness

Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities

Kingfisher, C.

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology
eBook available April 2017
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance

Anthropologies of Sound and Movement

Chrysagis, E. & Karampampas, P. (eds)

Across varied domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collaborative dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2012
Collaborators Collaborating

Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

Konrad, M. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology
eBook available March 2011
Collective Terms

Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France

Epstein, B. S.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2013
Colonial Collecting and Display

Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Wintle, C.

Subjects: Museum Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)
February 2013
The Colours of the Empire

Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

Matos, P. F. de

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available December 2007
Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Blatterer, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available June 2022
Communication

A House Seen from Everywhere

Klyukanov, I. E.

Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all four views are interconnected.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available March 2013
Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
November 1996
Communities of Faith

Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island

Buckser, A.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2018
Competing Power

Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State

Halstead, N.

Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research in Guyana, Competing Power shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
October 2008
Conceiving Kinship

Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe

Bonaccorso, M. M. E.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available August 2016
Conceptions

Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India

Bharadwaj, A.

The book examines the causes and consequences of infertility and the rapid proliferation of new reproductive technologies in ‘modern India’. The book emerges from an ethnographic inquiry that explains how assisted conception, as a means of bypassing infertility, is being accommodated, understood and used in India today.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available January 2010
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
December 1999
Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
eBook available December 2018
Conceptualizing the World

An Exploration across Disciplines

Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.

Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2022
Configuring Contagion

Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Meinert, L. & Seeberg, J. (eds)

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious potential of specific infections and non-infectious conditions.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available December 2005
Conjuring Hope

Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Lindquist, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available December 2007
Consuming the Inedible

Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

MacClancy, J., Henry, C. Jeya & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2018
Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology
June 2015
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Rountree, K. (ed)

Though all Pagan and Native Faith movements valorize human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals and agendas are diverse. Contributors to this volume draw on ethnographic cases within Europe to explore the interplay of nationalism and transnationalism within these recently emerging and diverse groups.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available August 2010
Contemporary Religiosities

Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State

Kapferer, B., Telle, K. & Eriksen, A. (Eds.)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
June 2011
Contested Mediterranean Spaces

Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly

Kousis, M., Selwyn, T. & Clark, D. (Eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
January 2010
Contested Nationalism

Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s

Caspersen, N.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
April 2023
Contesting Moralities

Roma Identities, State and Kinship

Sarafian, I.

Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and private. This book explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2016
Contextualizing Disaster

Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)

Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
eBook available February 2023
Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)

During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
eBook available January 2018
Contrarian Anthropology

The Unwritten Rules of Academia

Nader, L.

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
January 2007
Conversations on the Beach

Fishermen's Knowledge, Metaphor and Environmental Change in South India

Hoeppe, G.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
November 2009
Conversion After Socialism

Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union

Pelkmans, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
December 2007
Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Baerenholdt, J. O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism
July 1996
Coping with Tourists

European Reactions to Mass Tourism

Boissevain, J. (ed)

Subject: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
July 2004
Corporate Scandal

Global Corporatism against Society

Gledhill, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology
May 2023
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Knudsen, S. (ed)

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
eBook available November 2021
Cosmic Coherence

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

Matthews, W.

Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available January 2023
Cosmopolitan Refugees

Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg

Ripero-Muñiz, N.

Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available June 2016
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen

Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine

Littlewood, R. & Lynch, R. (eds)

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies. The chapters cover a range of ethnographic areas and examine notions of personhood, agency, uncertainty and control among other questions. In so doing, the contributors seek to contextualise understandings within wider cultural understandings found in these areas, linking these concepts to the wider social fabric.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available January 2015
Cousin Marriages

Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change

Shaw, A. & Raz, A. (eds)

Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage, presenting a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy consanguinity.”

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available June 2022
The Cracked Art World

Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

Rush, K.

This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available October 2021
Crafting Chinese Memories

The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

Swancutt, K. (ed)

Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available April 2012
Crafting 'The Indian'

Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

Kalshoven, P. T.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies
June 2013
Creating a Nation with Cloth

Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

Addo, P.-A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2016
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

Action Research in Higher Education

Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.

Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
June 2023
Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

Anthropological Perspectives

Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)

Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
July 2003
Creative Land

Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

Leach, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2016
Creativity in Transition

Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

Svašek, M. & Meyer, B. (eds)

Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available February 2020
Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

Schraten, J.

Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
March 2014
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia

Knörr, J.

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available April 2018
A Creole Nation

National Integration in Guinea-Bissau

Kohl, C.

Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available April 2009
Crisis of the State

War and Social Upheaval

Kapferer, B. & Bertelsen, B. E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
May 2005
Critical Junctions

Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn

Kalb, D. & Tak, H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available September 2022
Critical Public Archaeology

Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century

Westmont, V. C. (ed)

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)
eBook available July 2019
Critique of Identity Thinking

Jackson, M.

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
December 2005
Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

Stacul, J., Moutsou, C., & Kopnina, H. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2019
Crossing Histories and Ethnographies

Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste

Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)

Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology
eBook available July 2022
Crossroads of Heritage and Religion

Legacy and Sustainability of World Heritage Site Moravian Christiansfeld

Damsholt, T., Melchior, M. R., Petterson, C., & Reeh, T., (eds)

Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian Christiansfeld, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015, this anthology reaches back to the eighteenth century when the church settlement was founded, examines its legacy within Danish culture and modern society, and brings this history into the present and the ongoing heritagization processes.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2011
Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

Behrends, A., Reyna, S. P. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
July 2023
Cryptopolitics

Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)

Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
eBook available February 2012
The Cult and Science of Public Health

A Sociological Investigation

Dew, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
January 2004
Cultivating Arctic Landscapes

Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G. & Nuttall, M. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
November 2014
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction

Migration, Health and Family Making

Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Khanna, S. K. (eds)

Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South and East Asia, Canada and Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews and influenced by wider state systems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
June 2004
Culture and Politics

Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World

Pinxten, R. & Verstraete, G. & Longman, C. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available July 2009
Culture and Rhetoric

Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
April 2008
Culture and the Changing Environment

Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Casimir, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2017
Culture Change and Ex-Change

Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Knapp, R.

Analyzing perceived and performed cultural change by members of the Bena Bena language group in Papua New Guinea, Knapp offers a new understanding by conjoining traditional anthropological models as well as recent pursuits such as collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available March 2010
Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available October 2015
Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric

The Texture of Political Action

Hariman, R. & Cintron, R. (eds)

By emphasizing the texture of political action, this volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
January 2001
Culture, Creation, and Procreation

Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice

Böck, M. & Rao, A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available June 2009
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Carrithers, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
March 2014
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition

Honkasalo, M.-L. & Tuominen, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
December 2007
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany

Usborne, C.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
February 2006
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Nowotny, H. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
February 2004
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education

Dracklé, D. and Edgar, I. R. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Educational Studies
eBook available March 2016
Cutting and Connecting

'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange

Myhre, K. C. (ed)

Cutting and Connecting rethinks anthropology’s comparative endeavor by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. The contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent anthropological studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available April 2018
Cutting Cosmos

Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

Mikkelsen, H. H.

Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
March 2013
Cyberidentities At War

The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet

Bräuchler, B.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
April 2019
Cyborg Mind

What Brain–Computer and Mind–Cyberspace Interfaces Mean for Cyberneuroethics

MacKellar, C.

An inter-disciplinary examination of the ethical challenges arisings from direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems as well as between the mind and cyberspace. This volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available November 2013
Dance Circles

Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal

Neveu Kringelbach, H.

A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2017
The Dance of Nurture

Negotiating Infant Feeding

Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.

Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
December 2008
Dances with Spiders

Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy

Lüdtke, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Performance Studies
eBook available December 2007
Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
eBook available October 2012
Dancing Cultures

Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

Neveu Kringelbach, H. & Skinner, J. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2012
Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

Harrison, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)
December 2004
Day of the Dead

When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca

Haley, S. & Fukuda, C.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
August 2016
Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring

Reyna, S. P.

As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2013
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots

Custom and Conflict in East New Britain

Martin, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available December 2003
Death of the Father

An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Borneman, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
eBook available May 2017
Death of the Public University?

Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

Wright, S. & Shore, C. (eds)

Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new landscapes of higher education emerging across Europe and Australasia.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
November 2016
Death, Materiality and Mediation

An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

Graham, B.

Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with death and remembrance in Ireland. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary Irish communities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available December 2012
Debating Authenticity

Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

Fillitz, T. & Saris, A. J. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
December 2002
Defiance and Compliance

Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

El-Kholy, H.A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2022
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2009
Deleuzian Intersections

Science, Technology, Anthropology

Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
June 2021
Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)

Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available December 2018
Democracy Struggles

NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia

Vetta, T.

This book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. It traces the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available March 2019
Democracy's Paradox

Populism and its Contemporary Crisis

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2017
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Transitioning to an Alternative World System

Baer, H. A.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
January 2009
Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

Grasseni, C.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
November 2005
Development-induced Displacement

Problems, Policies and People

de Wet, Chris (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology
September 2015
Developmentality

An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership

Sande Lie, J. H.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations in terms of a partnership.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2020
The Devil is Disorder

Bodies, Spirits and Misfortune in a Trinidadian Village

Lynch, R.

What role might the Devil have in health and illness? The Devil is Disorder explores constructions of the body, health, illness and wider misfortune in a Trinidadian village where evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity. Based on long-term ethnography, the book takes a nuanced cosmological approach to situate evangelical Christian understandings.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Sociology
October 2011
Diasporic Generations

Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain

Berg, M. L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
eBook available November 2017
Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration

Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion

Schlee, G. & Horstmann, A. (eds)

What does it mean to “fit in?” This volume of essays demystifies the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about role of similarity in inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local social structures, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available April 2012
Differentiating Development

Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2008
Difficult Folk?

A Political History of Social Anthropology

Mills, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)
June 2014
Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

Salman, T., Marti i Puig, S., & Haar, G. van der (eds)

“This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).” · Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University

Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’ best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster

Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice

Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
April 2003
Discerning Palates of the Past

An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and Plant Usage in India

Reddy, S. N.

This book analyzes the agricultural and pastoral infrastructure of the Mature and Late Harappan cultures (ca. 2500-1700 BC) of northwest India. The economic role of drought-resistant millet crops is reconstructed using ethnographic studies of crop processing, palaeoethnobotany, and carbon isotope analysis. New directions are provided for discerning archaeologically how pastoralism and agriculture may be integrated in complex economic systems.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2008
The Discipline of Leisure

Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

Coleman, S. & Kohn, T. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2013
Distributed Objects

Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell

Chua, L. & Elliott, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Literary Studies
eBook available July 2005
Documenting Transnational Migration

Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America

Antoun, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
December 2002
The Domain of Constant Excess

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka

Bastin, R.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2014
Domesticating Youth

Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan

Roche, S.

“This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available May 2011
The Dream in Islam

From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration

Edgar, I. R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available May 2018
Dreams Made Small

The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia

Munro, J.

Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available November 2021
Dressing Up

Menswear in the Age of Social Media

Bluteau, J. M.

What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Anthropology (General)
December 2001
Drinking

Anthropological Approaches

Garine, I. & V. de (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2022
Durable Solutions

Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia

Funke, C.

Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms, as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available November 2013
Durkheim in Dialogue

A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Hausner, S. L. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
October 2002
Durkheim Today

Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
eBook available August 2013
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available August 2012
A Durkheimian Quest

Solidarity and the Sacred

Watts Miller, W.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2020
Dust Inside

Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil

Mazzeo, A.

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available October 2022
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
March 2004
An Earth-colored Sea

'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available December 2015
Ecological Migrants

The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders

Xie, Y.

This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available November 2020
Ecological Nostalgias

Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
eBook available July 2016
Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2009
Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, S. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
February 2015
Economy and Ritual

Studies of Postsocialist Transformations

Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)

Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth and that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
October 2015
Economy for and Against Democracy

Hart, K. (ed)

Contemporary economies, dominated by global finance and political rent-seekers, often inhibit the realization of democracy. This volume features comparative essays and case studies to examine the antagonisms between the economy and democracy and the struggles and visions to make things more equitable.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2018
Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

Carrier, J. G. (ed)

This volume examines the relationship between corporate and economic wrongdoing and the neoliberal policies and practices that have been influential in Western societies since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many would consider wrong – and even fragmented our very ideas of economic right and wrong.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available May 2008
Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available September 2018
Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

Henfrey, T. B.

Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available September 2022
Edible People

The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh

Siefkes, C.

While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History
June 2006
The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Current Issues, Future Perspectives

Dyer, C.

Subjects: Educational Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
June 2003
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Dracklé, D., Edgar, I. R. & Schippers, T. K. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy

Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

Zeitzen, M. K.

An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2013
Elusive Promises

Planning in the Contemporary World

Abram, S. & Weszkalnys, G. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
November 2008
Embodied Communities

Dance Traditions and Change in Java

Hughes-Freeland, F.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2021
Embodying Borders

A Migrant’s Right to Health, Universal Rights and Local Policies

Ferrero, L., Quagliariello, C., & Vargas, A. C. (eds)

Based on extensive field research, the essays in this volume illuminate the experiences of migrants from their own point of view, providing a critical understanding of the complex social reality in which each experience is grounded.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Medical Anthropology
eBook available June 2021
Embracing Landscape

Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia

Küçüküstel, S.

Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
March 2008
Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

Skultans, V.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
July 2017
Emptiness and Fullness

Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China

Bregnbæk, S. & Bunkenborg, M. (eds)

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2020
An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology

Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence

Graham, S.

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
July 2009
Encounter, Transformation, and Identity

Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000

Fowler, I. & Fanso, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
September 2011
Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices

Anthropological Reflections

Fedele, A. & Blanes, R. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2019
Encounters with Emotions

Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity

Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)

Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available January 1999
The End of the Refugee Cycle?

Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction

Black, R. & Koser, K. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2008
Enduring Socialism

Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation

West, H. G. & Raman, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
March 2016
Enduring Uncertainty

Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life

Hasselberg, I.

Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume presents a fascinating ethnography of deportation as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. This book is important for broader understandings of epistemology, border control policy, and human rights.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga

Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

Perminow, A. A.

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available May 2019
Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available March 2012
Engaging the Spirit World

Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia

Endres, K. W. & Lauser, A. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available January 2016
Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

McDougall, D.

Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
December 1998
Engendering Forced Migration

Theory and Practice

Indra, D. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2022
Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2012
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America

Natures, Subjects and Struggles

Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2013
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

Lockyer, J. & Veteto, J. R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2010
Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Salazar, N.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
November 1999
Essay on Time

A Brief Study of the Representation of Time in Religion and Magic

Hubert, H.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
eBook available March 2012
Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

Carrier, J. G. & Luetchford, P. G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
May 2003
Ethics and Genetics

A Workbook for Practitioners and Students

Wert, G. de, Meulen, R. ter, Mordacci, R. & Tallacchini, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available July 2013
Ethics in the Field

Contemporary Challenges

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology
eBook available June 2017
The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Transactions, Relations, and Persons

Josephides, L. & Grønseth, A. S. (eds)

This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology
May 2003
The Ethics of New Reproductive Technologies

Cases and Questions

Dooley, D., Dalla-Vorgia, P., Garanis-Papdatos, T., & McCarthy, J.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available March 2014
The Ethics of the New Eugenics

MacKellar, C. & Bechtel, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
October 2013
Ethno-Baroque

Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia

Dimova, R.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Media Studies
January 2001
Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America

Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory

Kuznar, L. A. (ed)

The papers in this volume present detailed studies of highland and lowland pastoralists and horticulturalists in Andean South America, including taphonomy and sacred landscapes. This volume will be of use to anyone who studies human adaptations to highland or arid environments, and to those interested in pastoral societies, as well as Andean South America.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2010
Ethnobotany in the New Europe

People, Health and Wild Plant Resources

Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
eBook available June 2022
Ethnographers Before Malinowski

Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922

Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)

At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History
eBook available June 2014
The Ethnographic Experiment

A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908

Hviding, E. & Berg, C. (eds)

In 1908 Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers brought about a turning point in modern anthropology. The two pioneers’ fieldwork in Island Melanesia brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. Contributors to this volume—who have all carried out fieldwork in Melanesian locations—situate the scholars’ efforts in the contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available November 2009
Ethnographic Practice in the Present

Melhuus, M., Mitchell, J., & Wulff, H. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available May 2010
The Ethnographic Self as Resource

Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

Collins, P. & Gallinat, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available February 2003
Ethnographies of Conservation

Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

Anderson, D. & Berglund, E. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2018
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the region as a conflict-ridden place. The contributions here draw on and further develop theories of space, place, movement, identity and sociality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
April 2021
Ethnographies of Power

A Political Anthropology of Energy

Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)

Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available July 2009
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter

Reflections on Research in and of Corporations

Cefkin, M. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available April 2021
Ethnography in the Raw

Life in a Luzon Village

Moeran, B.

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available August 2017
European Anthropologies

Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)

By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
eBook available March 2009
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology

Edwards, J. & Salazar, C. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
September 2015
European Products

Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus

Welz, G.

Since the Republic of Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, heritage-making and Europeanization are becoming intertwined in Greek-Cypriot society. The author argues that heritage emerges as an increasingly standardized economic resource — a “European product” — and that heritage policy has become infused with transnational market regulations and neoliberal property regimes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies
August 2007
The European Puzzle

The Political Structuring of Cultural Identities at a Time of Transition

Demossier, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo

Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

Zagato, A. (ed)

The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
September 2011
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment

The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

Geissler, P. W. & Molyneux, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available June 2021
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society

A Journey from Envy to Personhood

Souvlakis, N.

Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it affects individuals’ reactions to it.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
July 2023
Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available April 2021
Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Nichols, C. A.

As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
June 2005
Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

Jackson, M.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available January 2018
Expeditionary Anthropology

Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''

Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)

Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism
eBook available May 2018
The Experience of Neoliberal Education

Urciuoli, B. (ed)

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2021
Experiencing Materiality

Museum Perspectives

Gamberi, V.

Representing a cutting-edge study on the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer for an engaging relationship between visitors and museum artefacts and for rethinking or, better, ‘softening’ specific approaches in material culture studies.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
November 2007
Experiencing New Worlds

Wassmann, J. & Stockhaus, K. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2018
Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
July 2004
Expert Knowledge

First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology

Morris, B. & Bastin, R. (eds)

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available May 2007
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Mimica, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available March 2007
Exploring Gypsiness

Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

Engebrigtsen, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
April 2008
Exploring Regimes of Discipline

The Dynamics of Restraint

Dyck, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available February 2019
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls

Marsh, D. E.

Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
March 2015
Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview

Smith, K., Staples, J. & Rapport, N. (eds)

The interview creates a context of interaction with a particular authenticity to experience. Contributors explore how the interview is experienced as a particular kind of knowing within which personal, biographic, and social norms are explored and interrogated, providing direction and awareness for future encounters.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
November 2011
Extreme Heritage Management

The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands

Baldacchino, G. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
December 2021
Extremism, Society, and the State

Loperfido, G. (ed)

This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2020
Facing the Crisis

Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism

D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)

Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations during the last economic crisis. With its wide number of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
March 2013
Factions, Friends and Feasts

Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean

Boissevain, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2022
Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Doerr, N. M.

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
June 2013
Family Upheaval

Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

Rytter, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2019
Fate Calculation Experts

Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China

Li, G.

As the practice of divination, long stigmatized as an immoral superstition, enjoys a revival in contemporary China, Fate Calculation Experts explores the various ways in which diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
July 2011
Fatness and the Maternal Body

Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy

Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available March 2023
Feeding Anxieties

The Politics of Children's Food in Poland

Boni, Z.

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sociology
August 2023
The Feeling of the Fall

An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario

Taccone, I.

As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies
eBook available September 2017
Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference

Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines

Kreager, P. & Bochow, A. (eds)

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, family forms, and modern technology to the whole world, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available December 2007
Fetishes and Monuments

Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20^th Century

Sansi, R.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2019
Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania

Mattes, D.

Looking at Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available January 2020
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
July 2015
Figuration Work

Student Participation, Democracy and University Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy

Nielsen, G. B.

What should the role of students be in shaping their education, their university, and the wider society? This book seeks to answer these questions following recent international educational reforms. Using Denmark as the prism, the author reflects on and questions the kinds of future citizens who will emerge from current reforms.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
August 2015
Figurations of the Future

Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe

Krøijer, S.

Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available August 2020
Financialization

Relational Approaches

Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore how finance influences social and economic structures in different environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)
eBook available February 2023
Finding Home in Europe

Chronicles of Global Migrants

Pérez Murcia, L. E. & Bonfanti, S. (eds)

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available May 2020
Finding Ways Through Eurospace

West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside

Schapendonk, J.

Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. Based on a trajectory ethnography, this book discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2007
Fire in the Dark

Telling Gypsiness in North East England

Buckler, S.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2022
Fire on the Island

Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu

Bratrud, T.

In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
December 2008
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey

The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast

Knudsen, S.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
March 2015
Flexible Capitalism

Exchange and Ambiguity at Work

Kjaerulff, J. (ed)

Introducing anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It makes a novel contribution to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice, and to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available September 2010
Flexible Firm

The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen

Krause-Jensen, J.

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available March 2021
Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India

Casimir, M. J.

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
June 2010
Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland

Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals

Moore, R. & McClean, S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available June 2019
Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
May 1996
Food and the Status Quest

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Wiessner, P. & Schiefenhövel, W. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2022
Food Connections

Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration

Abranches, M.

Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available February 2017
Food Culture

Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
September 2000
Food for Health, Food for Wealth

Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities

Harbottle, L.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2017
Food Health

Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
eBook available September 2014
Food in Zones of Conflict

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

Collinson, P. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Controlling food and access to food can be used as a weapon. This is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict, because conflict impinges on the production and the distribution of food causing increased competition for food, land and resources. These themes unite the chapters of Food in Zones of Conflict, but since the topic is multidisciplinary, this volume appeals specialists in any field.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
November 1997
Food Preferences and Taste

Continuity and Change

Macbeth, H.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2017
Food Research

Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology
eBook available January 2012
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the YucatÁn

Ayora-Diaz, S. I.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2013
Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

Poser, A. von

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
June 2017
Footprints in Paradise

Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

Murray, A. E.

In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available December 2016
The Forest People without a Forest

Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon

Lueong, G. M.

The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available March 2023
Former Neighbors, Future Allies?

German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue

Weber, A. D. (ed)

Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2012
Fortune and the Cursed

The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination

Swancutt, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available October 2017
Foucault's Orient

The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan

Lazreg, M.

Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
October 2004
Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

Llobera, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
December 2005
Fracturing Resemblances

Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

Harrison, S.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2016
A Fragmented Landscape

Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe

De Zordo, S., Mishtal, J., & Anton. J. (eds)

Since 1945, European states’ social policy landscapes have proven remarkably varied, especially when it comes to contentious issues such as abortion, which is governed by a wide range of policy regimes. This volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe from the immediate postwar era to the present era.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available June 2013
Framing Africa

Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

Eltringham, N. (ed)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)
eBook available August 2016
The France of the Little-Middles

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

Cartier, M., Coutant, I., Masclet, O., & Siblot, Y.

The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
April 2015
The Franco-Mauritian Elite

Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change

Salverda, T.

Mauritian Independence in 1968 marked the end of the heyday of the island’s Franco-Mauritian elite, who are now is faced with a more diverse power constellation. This book focuses on the power of these white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities, and addresses how this group aims to prolong its position over time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available January 2022
Françoise Héritier

Gaillard, G.

A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2022
Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing

The Soninké Foyer in Paris

Accoroni, D.

Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available December 2021
Franz Baermann Steiner

A Stranger in the World

Adler, J. & Fardon, R.

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years.

This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Literary Studies
October 2005
Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology

Bertelsen, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
May 2014
Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa

Anthropological Perspectives

Guichard, M., Grätz, T., & Diallo, Y. (eds)

Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2019
From Bullies to Officers and Gentlemen

How Notions of Professionalism and Civility Transformed the Ghana Armed Forces

Agyekum, H. A.

Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa, the book assesses why and how the Ghana Armed Forces were transformed from an organisation that actively orchestrated coups into an institution that accepts the authority of the democratically elected civilian government.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
November 2017
From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

Rakopoulos, T.

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition
eBook available January 2023
From Missionaries to Main Street

The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States

Gilhooly, D.

The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. The book provides historical and cultural information on the Sgaw Karen people against the backdrop of the Htoo family’s path from Burma to Thailand.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available December 2018
From Storeroom to Stage

Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore

Urdea, A.

Tracing in reverse the journey of a collection of Romanian folk objects from a museum in London back to the villages where they were made, From Storeroom to Stage explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies
June 2023
From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Trémon, A.-C.

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology
March 2015
From Virtue to Vice

Negotiating Anorexia

O' Connor, R. A. & Esterik, P. van

The recovered hold the key to overcoming anorexia. This volume weaves together sufferers’ stories to reveal two accidental afflictions: misdirected development and an activity disorder. Also, as the recovered know anorexia from the inside, they can offer solutions to help other sufferers recover.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition
eBook available June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society

Government and Hegemony in Serbia

Mikuš, M.

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available September 2011
Funerals in Africa

Explorations of a Social Phenomenon

Jindra, M. & Noret, J. (eds)

This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2007
The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, N. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
June 2013
The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism

Making Place in the Indian Himalayas

Wagner, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2017
Gender in Georgia

Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus

Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available May 2022
Gender, Power, and Non-Governance

Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?

Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available October 2022
Gentrifications

Views from Europe

Chabrol, M., Collet, A., Giroud, M., Launay, L., Rousseau, M., Minassian, H. ter

Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate the ‘DNA’ of gentrification, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2013
The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2019
The Girl in the Text

Smith, A. (ed)

How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.

Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
December 2003
Girl Making

A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female

Bloustien, G.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
January 2016
Girlhood and the Politics of Place

Mitchell, C. & Rentschler, C. (eds)

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2023
Glimpses of Hope

The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, house building, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available October 2018
The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement

A Critical Appraisal

Stafford, P. B. (ed)

This book provides an introduction to the global phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, through an extensive collection of international case studies by researchers and practitioners. It explores current tensions in the movement and offers a wide-ranging set of recommendations for advancing age-friendly community development.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
June 2007
Global Ambitions and Local Identities

An Israeli-American High-Tech Merger

Ailon, G.

This study of a successful Israeli high-tech company's merger with an American competitor offers an important contribution to a better understanding of the social and personal ramifications of mergers. Based upon in-depth fieldwork, the book explores the reality behind the statistics, balance sheets, and managerial prescriptions that are the focus of most studies of international mergers and acquisitions.

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available July 2018
Global Fluids

The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value

Kroløkke, C.

Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusability and extensibility to discuss the moral limits of their global distribution.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
September 2007
The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’

Nonini, D. M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity

Comparing Beyond Europe

Rakopoulos, T. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available March 2018
Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice

Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)

Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice. Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
July 2004
Globalization

Some Critical Issues

Chun, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available December 2002
Globalization in Southeast Asia

Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

Yamashita, S. & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available October 2014
Globalized Fatherhood

Inhorn, M. C., Chavkin, W. & Navarro, J.-A. (eds)

Looking through a twenty-first century lens, anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers consider fatherhood from Peru to India to Vietnam. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
May 2008
God-botherers and Other True-believers

Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right

Bailey, F. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2017
A Goddess in Motion

Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza

Canals, R.

Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2020
Going Forward by Looking Back

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
February 2019
Going to Pentecost

An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available November 2021
Good Enough Mothers

Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico

López, JM

Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2017
The Good Holiday

Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique

Baptista, J. A.

Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, this volume explores the influence of development and tourism in relation to ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Travel and Tourism
eBook available May 2017
Grace after Genocide

Cambodians in the United States

Mortland, C. A.

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
December 2004
Grammars of Identity / Alterity

A Structural Approach

Baumann, G. & Gingrich, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
May 2022
Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies
October 2011
Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

Skinner, J. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
November 1998
The Great Immigration

Russian Jews in Israel

Siegel, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Jewish Studies Anthropology (General)
February 2015
The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland

Hocking, B. T.

Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
April 2013
Greek Whisky

The Localization of a Global Commodity

Bampilis, T.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
June 2006
Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

Vivanco, L. A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies
August 2013
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships

Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

Coupaye, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies
eBook available June 2011
Growing Up in Central Australia

New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence

Eickelkamp, U. (ed)

This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2017
Growing Up in Transit

The Politics of Belonging at an International School

Tanu, D.

Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
November 2015
Gypsy Economy

Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century

Brazzabeni, M., Ivone Cunha, M., & Fotta, M. (eds)

Roma and Gypsy economic arrangements are complexly related to social position. Authors ethnographically studied these complexities, exploring how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available September 2010
The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

Manger, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2018
Heading for the Scene of the Crash

The Cultural Analysis of America

Drummond, L.

Refashioning cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, Lee Drummond explores the 9/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides, providing the basis for a new theory of culture grounded in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
February 2015
Healing Roots

Anthropology in Life and Medicine

Laplante, J.

Laplante follows umhlonyane — one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. The volume follows the plant anthropologically on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant itself, and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
September 2016
Health and Difference

Rendering Human Variation in Colonial Engagements

Widmer, A. & Lipphardt, V. (eds)

In this volume, contributors follow physicians, demographers, nutrition experts, physical anthropologists, colonial agents, military officials and missionaries in colonies all over the globe, with specific attention to how they tried to sort out pressing health problems of populations they perceived to be diverse.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Colonial History
eBook available November 2008
Health, Risk, and Adversity

Panter-Brick, C. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available August 2018
Healthcare in Motion

Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access

Vindrola-Padros, C., Johnson G. A., & Pfister, A. E. (eds)

Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and examining the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals. It considers how the need for health services engenders particular (im)mobility forms, and how mobility is experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Medical Anthropology
November 2006
Heart of Lightness

The Life Story of an Anthropologist

Turner, E.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
July 1996
The Hegemonic Male

Masculinity in a Portuguese Town

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2020
Heirs of the Bamboo

Identity and Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese

Gaspar, M. C.

Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
August 1998
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2023
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe

The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Hirschon, R.

Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available November 2020
The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
October 2016
The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

Grasseni, C.

The Heritage Arena describes the ways in which cheese has been reinvented as a form of cultural heritage through the negotiation and competition of many actors, including cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
eBook available November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia

Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)

This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2008
Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available August 2018
Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available January 2014
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky

Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India

LaDousa, C.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2007
A History of Oxford Anthropology

Rivière, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)
June 2007
Holding Worlds Together

Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging

Lien, M. E. & Melhuus, M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2007
Holistic Anthropology

Emergence and Convergence

Parkin, D. & Ulijaszek, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available November 2020
Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Monsutti, A.

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available October 2016
Honour and Violence

Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan

Shah, N.

This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available September 2021
Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2017
House of the Waterlily

A Novel of the Ancient Maya World

Carmean, K.

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
July 2006
Household Archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Sobel, E. A., Gahr, D. A. T., & Ames, K. A. (eds)

Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2008
How Enemies Are Made

Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Schlee, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

Hadley, R. A.

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2021
How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Parkin, R.

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available March 2019
How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

Were, G.

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available December 2010
Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective

Past Meets Present

Moffat, T. & Prowse, T. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available March 2010
Human Nature as Capacity

Transcending Discourse and Classification

Rapport, N. (ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available December 2016
Human Origins

Contributions from Social Anthropology

Power, C., Finnegan, M. & Callan, H. (eds)

Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2016
Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

Sciama, L.D. (ed)

Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
December 2010
Hunters in the Barrens

The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's World

Henriksen, G.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available October 2016
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland

Rakowski, T.

Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2014
Hunters, Predators and Prey

Inuit Perceptions of Animals

Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
January 2001
Hunting the Gatherers

Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

O'Hanlon, M. & Welsch, R. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Theory and Methodology Colonial History Heritage Studies
October 2008
I Dreamed the Animals

Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter

Henriksen, G.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
February 2007
Identifying with Freedom

Indonesia after Suharto

Day, T (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
December 2002
Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

Friese, H. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
March 2007
Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available May 2007
Identity Matters

Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict

Peacock, J. M., Thornton, P. M., and Inman, P. B. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Peace and Conflict Studies
January 2012
Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Schramm, K., Skinner, D., & Rottenburg, R. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
August 1997
Identity, Gender and Poverty

New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan

Unnithan-Kumar, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
November 2003
Illness and Irony

On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available August 2017
Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
eBook available July 2011
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

Friedman, J. T.

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available December 2016
The Imbalance of Power

Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon

Brightman, M

The Imbalance of Power demonstrates that the indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
February 1999
Immigrants and Bureaucrats

Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center

Hertzog, E.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2008
The Impact of Electricity

Development, Desires and Dilemmas

Winther, T.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
December 2008
Impotent Warriors

Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity

Kilshaw, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come

Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Demian, M.

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available June 2019
In Pursuit of Belonging

Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces

Rottmann, S, B.

The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available January 2016
In Search of Legitimacy

How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

Griffith, L. M.

Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
August 2006
In Search of Salt

Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960

Quinn, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available September 2015
In the Absence of the Gift

New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

Rasmussen, A. E.

Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available May 2015
In the Event

Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments

Meinert, L. & Kapferer, B. (eds)

Based on ethnographic studies from around the world, varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management, this volume unfolds how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2023
In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
January 2001
In the Mind's Eye

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Evolution of Human Cognition

Nowell, A. (ed)

This volume brings together the disciplines of palaeontology, psychology, anatomy, and primatology. Together, they address a number of issues, including the evolution of sex differences in spatial cognition, the role of archaeology in the cognitive sciences, the relationships between brain size, cranial reorganization and hominid cognition, and the role of language and information processing in human evolution.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
October 2007
Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices

Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy

Però, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2022
Inconceivable Iran

To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?

Tremayne, S.

This book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research to argue that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available October 2018
Indeterminacy

Waste, Value, and the Imagination

Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)

What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2017
Indigeneity and the Sacred

Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas

Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)

This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
eBook available December 2017
Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, aiming to convey a theoretical and empirical overview of indigeneity in order to investigate the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2017
Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Steur, L.

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available October 2015
Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East

Abu-Rabia, A.

Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to their reciprocal enrichment.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available August 2011
Indigenous Peoples and Demography

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available October 2008
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

Fischer, E. F. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence

Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice

Dhillon, J.

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History
September 1997
Indigenous Rights and Development

Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2009
Indispensable Eyesores

An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings

Hoorn, M. v der

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available March 2018
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
July 2023
Innovation and Implementation

Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis and Dissemination

Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
July 1996
Insiders and Outsiders

Paradise and Reality in Mallorca

Waldren, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams

The Art of Managing Foreign Aid

Drążkiewicz, E.

How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
April 2023
Integrating Strangers

Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

Ménard, A.

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available May 2014
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

Essays in Historical Realism

Smith, G.

“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available May 2018
Intimate Mobilities

Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World

Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)

This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
May 2006
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

Dumont, L.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
March 2013
Introductory Readings in Anthropology

Callan, H., Street, B. & Underdown, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2020
Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories

Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers

Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology
October 2003
An Invitation to Anthropology

The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies

Llobera, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available October 2019
Inward Looking

The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective

Marinov, A. G.

Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available April 2013
Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

Zenker, O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Cultural Studies (General)
June 2008
Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

Loizos, P.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2012
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sunni and Shia Perspectives

Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available June 2009
Islam and New Kinship

Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

Clarke, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
January 2018
Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
June 2003
Issues in Medical Research Ethics

Boomgaarden, J. & Louhiala, P & Wiesing, U.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available November 2019
It Happens Among People

Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2020
Jaguars of the Dawn

Spirit Mediumship in the Brazilian Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini, E.

Drawing upon over a decade of extensive fieldwork in temples of the Vale do Amanhecer in Brazil and Europe, this ethnography explores how mediums understand their experiences and how they learn to establish relationships with their spirit guides.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available November 2010
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

Biesele, M. & Hitchcock, R. K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available June 2016
Keywords of Mobility

Critical Engagements

Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
July 2010
Kin, Gene, Community

Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis

Birenbaum-Carmeli, D. & Carmeli, Y.S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
July 1996
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon

Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

Ardener, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
August 2006
The Kinning of Foreigners

Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

Howell, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
eBook available March 2009
Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Bamford, S. & Leach, J. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available October 2007
Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)

Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology (General) History: 18th/19th Century
December 2014
Kinship, Community, and Self

Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean

Coy, J., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Verhoeven, C. (eds)

David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. The significance of Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean’s impact on the discipline of history.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
May 2008
Knowing How to Know

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Halstead, N., Hirsch, E., & Okely, J. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available February 2022
Land and the Mortgage

History, Culture, Belonging

Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2010
The Land Is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

Geissler, P. W. & Prince, R. J.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available January 2021
Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

Subject: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available February 2010
Landscape Ethnoecology

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2009
Landscape, Process and Power

Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

Heckler, S. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2012
Landscapes Beyond Land

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Árnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J. & Whitehouse, A. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
April 2011
Landscapes of Relations and Belonging

Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea

Anderson, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
November 2015
Language and Identity Politics

A Cross-Atlantic Perspective

Späti, C. (ed)

In a multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a often fraught subject, as evidenced by new legislation and heated public debates in many societies. This volume traces the contours of these complex phenomena, examining the interaction of language, identity, and political activity across Europe and North America.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
December 2016
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances

The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance

Sikand, N.

Odissi dance has transformed over the centuries from an Indian temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
March 1997
The Last Shaman

Change in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies
August 2006
Le Malaise Creole

Ethnic Identity in Mauritius

Boswell, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2012
Learning From the Children

Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies
eBook available October 2007
Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology
February 2014
Learning Senegalese Sabar

Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar

Bizas, E.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
March 2015
Learning Under Neoliberalism

Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education

Hyatt, S. B., Shear, B. W., & Wright, S. (eds)

As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more intimate relationships with corporate interests and more closely resemble for-profit corporations in both structure and practice. The contributors to this volume use ethnographic methods to investigate the multi-faceted impacts of neoliberal restructuring, while reporting on their own pedagogical responses, at universities in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2016
Leaving Footprints in the Taiga

Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters

Brandišauskas, D.

Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate dramatic environmental and social changes that have unfolded in post-Soviet Siberia.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2013
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

From Territorial Subject to American Citizen

Schachter, J.

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present
July 2015
Legal Dissonance

The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea

Larcom, S.

Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state criminal law — undermine each other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can lead to an activity being advanced by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice and each legal order’s diminished ability to deter wrongdoing.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2011
Legends of People, Myths of State

Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
December 2006
Lela in Bali

History through Ceremony in Cameroon

Fardon, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies Colonial History
July 2003
L'Evaluation en Comité

A Textes et rapports de souscription au Comité destravaux historiques et scientifiques, 1903-1917

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
eBook available July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons

Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India

Pfeffer, G.

Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2016
Life as a Hunt

Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

Marks, S. A.

The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
April 2010
The Life of Property

House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology
eBook available January 2023
Life with Durham Cathedral

A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building

Calvert, A. J.

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available April 2021
Liminal Moves

Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times

Cangià, F.

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’, a condition of suspension and ambivalence between places, meanings and times.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available August 2006
The Limits of Meaning

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

Engelke, M. & Tomlinson, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2011
Liquid Bread

Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Schiefenhövel, W. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2015
The Living Ancestors

Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

Jokic, Z.

This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the “part is equal to the whole.” This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available August 2017
Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

Davies, J.

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
April 2015
Living Kinship in the Pacific

Toren, C. & Pauwels, S. (eds)

Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives. The ethnographic case studies add to the understanding of kinship as — according to Unaisi Nabobo-Baba — “knowledge that counts.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2022
Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, S.

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available July 2016
Living on Thin Ice

The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska

Dinero, S. C.

Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies
June 2014
Living Translation

Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine

Pritzker, S. E.

Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a “search for resonance” with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the “living translation” of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available July 2018
Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
December 2006
Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
August 2011
Localizing the Internet

An Anthropological Account

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
September 2005
The Logic of Environmentalism

Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2023
The Long Shore

Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Meniketti, M. (ed)

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2010
The Long Way Home

The Meaning and Values of Repatriation

Turnbull, P. & Pickering, M. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
December 2010
Lost to the State

Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East

Khlinovskaya Rockhill, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
March 2003
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
September 2023
Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries

Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland

Rollins, J.

Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2016
Made In Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

Chakravarti, L. Z.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology
September 2023
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India

Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital

Strauss, A.

Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bureaucracy of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available January 2023
A Magpie’s Tale

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Portisch, A. O.

Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available October 2015
Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Purdeková, A.

Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. The book investigates this project of civic education, the explosion of neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the uses of camps and retreats that come together to shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
January 2015
Making a Difference?

Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China

Price, S. & Robinson, K. (eds)

This collection of essays locates recent Chinese experience with development in a historical and comparative perspective. Contributors − social scientists employed by international development banks, national government agencies, and sub-contracting groups – use real-life experience to examine development policies from a practitioner’s perspective.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2022
Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
June 2019
Making Bodies Kosher

The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

Kasstan, B.

Analyses the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK, and will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology of Religion
February 2023
Making Multiple Babies

Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction

Wu, C.-L.

Human beings have been producing more twins, triplets, and quadruplets than ever before, due to the expansion of medically assisted conception. This book analyzes the anticipatory regimes of making multiple babies. With archival documents, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and registry data, this book traces the global and local governance of the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) used to tackle multiple pregnancy since the 1970s.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
October 2004
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Yamashita, S., Bosco, J., & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

Pype, K.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Media Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
July 2022
Making Things Happen

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

Murphy Thomas, J.

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available January 2020
Management and Morality

An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars

Henningsen, E.

Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena of meaning that should be analysed as a ‘cultural space’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
eBook available May 2019
Management by Seclusion

A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty

Cochrane, G.

Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available July 2017
Managing Ambiguity

How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brković, Č.

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present
December 2001
Managing Reproductive Life

Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality

Tremayne, S. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
September 2006
The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

Evens, T. M. S. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
November 2007
The Manual of Ethnography

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
April 2013
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness

Saxer, M.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
December 1998
Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available July 2021
Margaret Mead

Shankman, P.

Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2019
Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

Endres, K. W.

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available May 2019
Marketing Hope

Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia

Schiffauer, L.

Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available June 2017
Mary Douglas

Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

6, P. & Richards, P.

This valuable book introduces Mary Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. The authors effectively demonstrate how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
September 2023
Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
July 2015
Masks and Staffs

Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

Pelican, Michaela

Subject: Anthropology (General)
September 1998
Mastering Soldiers

Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit

Ben-Ari, E.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available July 2021
Matsutake Worlds

Faier, L. & Hathaway, M. J. (eds)

Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroom’s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic process—rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.

Subjects: Sociology Food & Nutrition
September 2012
A Matter of Belief

Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

Joshi, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available May 2021
Mattering the Invisible

Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
July 2009
Meaningful Inconsistencies

Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Doerr, N. M.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2006
Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2020
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities

Non-media-centric Perspectives

Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Development Studies
October 2015
Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

Pink, S. & Abram, S. (eds)

Contemporary anthropologists’ engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume’s contributors question whether, through these new practices, a fresh public anthropology is emerging.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies
eBook available January 2022
Mediated Lives

Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan

Twigt, M.

Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Media Studies
May 2007
Medical Identities

Healing, Well Being and Personhood

Maynard, K. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available September 2018
Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Stroeken, K.

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
eBook available December 2010
Medicine Between Science and Religion

Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Adams, V., Schrempf, M. & Craig, S. R. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available July 2008
Melanesian Odysseys

Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity

Josephides, L.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
December 2002
Memoirs of a Mbororo

The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon

Bocquene, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Memory Studies Literary Studies
November 2006
The Men We Loved

Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture

Kaplan, D.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2018
Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)

Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available May 2017
Methodologies of Mobility

Ethnography and Experiment

Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available June 2022
Migration and Health

Challenging the Borders of Belonging, Care, and Policy

El-Shaarawi, N. & Larchanché, S. (eds)

Despite the centrality of migration in our contemporary world, scholarship on mobility and health frequently separates migrants according to legal status, country of origin, destination, or health concern. Yet people on the move and health systems face challenges and opportunities that transcend these boundaries, including border fortification, neoliberal agendas, and climate change. This volume challenges these epistemic borders.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
eBook available May 2016
Migration by Boat

Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival

Mannik, L. (ed)

Exploring various contemporary case studies and historic cultural renditions of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees, this book shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Transport Studies
eBook available January 2022
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
November 2010
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

A Critical Stance

Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available March 2013
Militant Lactivism?

Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Faircloth, C.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available October 2017
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Mageo, J. & Hermann, E. (eds)

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available April 2009
The Mirage of China

Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World

Liu, X.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2017
The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination

Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology
eBook available August 2018
Mirrors of Passing

Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time

Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available December 2019
Mixed Harvest

Stories from the Human Past

Swigart, R.

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.

Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2019
Mobile Urbanity

Somali Presence in Urban East Africa

Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)

Demystifying Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, this volume shows its historical depth, and explores the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
eBook available April 2009
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia

Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Alexiades, M. N. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
October 2012
Modalities of Change

The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia

Wilkerson, J. & Parkin, R. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2023
Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.

Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
October 1998
Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Handelman, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available December 2001
Modern Babylon?

Prostituting Children in Thailand

Montgomery, H.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available July 2007
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Ellen, R. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Schubert, V.

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available October 2020
Moebius Anthropology

Essays on the Forming of Form

Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)

Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available July 2018
Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Salazar, N. B.

Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
eBook available January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self

The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia

Hopkins, J.

Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
eBook available March 2018
Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design

Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available June 2019
Money Games

Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Pickles, A. J.

Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available June 2017
Money in a Human Economy

Hart, K. (eds)

Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
October 2002
Montesquieu

His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
eBook available April 2018
Moral Anthropology

A Critique

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume aims to reconceptualise the discipline of anthropology in a radically critical way.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2017
Moral Engines

Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life

Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)

What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available July 2010
Moral Power

The Magic of Witchcraft

Stroeken, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available June 2021
The Moral Work of Anthropology

Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work

Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
June 2014
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa

Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland

Clough, P.

Based on fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles in Nigeria - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998) - this book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2010
Morality, Hope and Grief

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

Dilger, H. & Luig, L. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
January 2001
Morals of Legitimacy

Between Agency and the System

Pardo, I. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available June 2016
Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
September 2016
Moving Places

Relations, Return and Belonging

Gregorič Bon, N. & Repič, J. (eds)

Centering on “moving places” – places with locations that are not fixed, but relative – this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available May 2012
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology
eBook available May 2010
Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Gressgård, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
March 2008
Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Crossing the Boundaries Within

Graburn, N., Ertl, J. & Tierney, R. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
April 2015
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)

Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities

Casciarri, B., Assal, M.A.M. & Ireton, F. (eds)

Based on original fieldwork collected in Sudan from 2006 to 2011, contributors’ look at “access to resources” from various disciplinary approaches — socio-anthropology, geography, politics, history, linguistic. The book analyzes major transformations, from the 1980s to South Sudan’s independence in 2011, which affected the country in the framework of “globalization.”

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
December 2005
Multiple Medical Realities

Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

Johannessen, H. & Lázár, I. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available September 2011
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Zigon, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)

Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available August 2019
The Museum of Mankind

Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department

Burt, B.

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years’ service with the Department is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures.

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
December 2005
Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

Brown, S. & Volgsten, U. (eds)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2019
Muted Memories

Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade

Lindström, J.

This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Development Studies
eBook available June 2017
The Myth of Self-Reliance

Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp

Omata, N.

The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2022
Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas

Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
September 1996
Mythology, Spirituality, and History

Gray, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies
May 2005
Nameless Relations

Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients

Konrad, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
November 2006
Names and Nunavut

Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland

Alia, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2012
Narrating the Future in Siberia

Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

Ulturgasheva, O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
April 2014
Narrating Victimhood

Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia

Schäuble, M.

Based on fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Narrating Victimhood examines the continuing contestations over truth, history & memory that have helped shape this region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available November 2016
Narratives in the Making

Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present

Gallinat, A.

This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
May 2006
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition

Baca, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology
April 2005
The Nature of Sociology

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2020
Nature Wars

Essays Around a Contested Concept

Ellen, R.

Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2020
Navigating Miscarriage

Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives

Kilshaw, S. & Borg, K. (eds)

This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
May 2006
Navigating Terrains of War

Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

Vigh, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2014
Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia

Women, Migration, and the Diaspora

Akman, H. (ed)

“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology’s work within a broader international scholarship.” · Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies
January 2009
Negotiating Risk

British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics

Shaw, A.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
August 2006
Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Perspectives from Social Anthropology

Gingrich, A. & Banks, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available February 2022
Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life

Urciuoli, B.

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available March 2022
A New African Elite

Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation

Pellow, D.

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury

The Construction of Religious Movements

Prince, R. & Riches, D.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology
December 2004
A New Look At Thai Aids

Perspectives from the Margin

Fordham, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available January 2010
The New Media Nation

Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication

Alia, V

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2022
New Perspectives on Moral Change

Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
October 2007
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers

Challenges Ahead

Kneebone, S. & Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2010
News as Culture

Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions

Rao, U.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available June 2021
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2014
Nighttime Breastfeeding

An American Cultural Dilemma

Tomori, C.

Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
April 2008
The Nomads of Mykonos

Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space

Bousiou, P.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2020
Nourishing Life

Foodways and Humanity in an African Town

Huhn, A.

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available November 2019
Nourishing the Nation

Food as National Identity in Catalonia

Johannes, V.

Provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
December 2006
Nursing Stories

Life and Death in a German Hospice

Eschenbruch, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
eBook available April 2022
Nurturing the Other

First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia

Grotti, V.

Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Anthropology of Religion
February 2015
Objects and Imagination

Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning

Fuglerud, Ø. & Wainwright, L. (eds)

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Museum Studies
June 2023
Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities

Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?

Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
June 2023
Obstetricians Speak

On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation

Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)

For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
February 2003
Oceanic Socialities and Cultural Forms

Ethnographies of Experience

Hoëm, I. & Roalkvam, S. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
April 2023
Of Jaguars and Butterflies

Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy

Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.

Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2018
Of Life and Health

The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

Tengan, A. B.

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
September 2012
Ogata-Mura

Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village

Wood, D. C.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
June 2015
Oikos and Market

Explorations in Self-Sufficiency after Socialism

Gudeman, S. & Hann, C. (eds)

This volume’s six comparative investigations of postsocialist communities illuminate the universal significance of Aristotle’s vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the house. These postsocialist configurations show that economies depend on macro institutions of markets and states, and also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
August 2005
Oligarchs and Oligopolies

New Formations of Global Power

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
September 1999
Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event

The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway

Klausen, A. (ed)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2020
On Mediation

Historical, Legal, Anthropological and International Perspectives

Härter, K., Hillemanns, C. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Exploring mediation and related practices of conflict regulation, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach that includes historical, legal, anthropological and international perspectives. The book observes historical and current relations between mediation and the criminal justice system and provides anthropological perspectives and case studies to explore mediation and arbitration in international arenas.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Applied Anthropology
eBook available September 2003
On Prayer

Text and Commentary

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
eBook available April 2017
On Retaliation

Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition

Turner, B. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Retaliatory logics are associated with all types of social and political organization. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available April 2019
On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification

Chun, A.

An audacious critique of the issues that have plagued culturalization in anthropological thought and writing. Allen Chun argues that disciplinary knowledge has always been embedded in changing contexts of sociopolitical practice and that neglect of its underlying politics gives different meaning to anthropology’s objective fallacy.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
March 2008
On the Margins of Religion

Pine, F. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
eBook available February 2020
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise

Affect, Tourism, Belize

Little, K.

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
October 2005
On the Order of Chaos

Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

Mosko, M. S. & Damon, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available September 2016
The Online World of Surrogacy

Berend, Z.

Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
eBook available February 2008
Order and Disorder

Anthropological Perspectives

Benda-Beckmann, K. von & Pirie, F. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available June 2012
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology
October 1999
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology
eBook available March 2008
Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Boškovic, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available February 2023
Other Worlds, Other Bodies

Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing

Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)

This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
eBook available April 2016
Our Common Denominator

Human Universals Revisited

Antweiler, C.

Against the backdrop of a discipline focused on difference, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of cross-cultural commonalities -- phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies -- for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available June 2020
Ours Once More

Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece

Herzfeld, M.

When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)
April 2011
Out of Place

Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Goddard, M.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
June 2010
Out of the Study and Into the Field

Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology

Parkin, R.& de Sales, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)
eBook available October 2021
Outsiders

Memories of Migration to and from North Korea

Bell, M.

In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2016
Ownership and Nurture

Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations

Brightman, M., Fausto, C. & Grotti, V. (eds)

Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
July 2014
Pacific Futures

Projects, Politics and Interests

Rollason, W. (ed)

Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
eBook available November 2018
Pacific Realities

Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)

In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available October 2022
Pacific Spaces

Translations and Transmutations

Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)

Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
eBook available June 2020
Pacing Mobilities

Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume looks at the means of mobility in twenty-first century movement. Through a focus on pacing and pace, this volume looks at how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2003
Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

Reed, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
April 2016
Parenthood between Generations

Transforming Reproductive Cultures

Pooley, S. & Qureshi, K. (eds)

Parenthood between Generations problematizes linear narratives about the emergence of ‘parenting’ as a dominant ideology. The chapters situate the cross-cutting power of the life-course in specific global historical contexts, so as to examine how reproductive cultures are influenced by demographic change, new technologies, migration and diaspora. Studies of working-class, minority and non-heterosexual families, illegitimacy and adoption shed light on of the diverse ways in which nature, biology, kinship and gender have been understood.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
July 2013
Pastoralism in Africa

Past, Present and Future

Bollig, M., Schnegg, M., & Wotzka, H.-P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
July 2005
Pathways to Heaven

Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2017
The Patient Multiple

An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan

Taee, J.

In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available August 2016
Patient-Centred IVF

Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic

Gerrits, T.

This book places the patient-centred practices of a single clinic in a national context where ARTs are highly regulated (‘Dutch IVF’) and examines how this form of medicine co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of the women and men using these technologies.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
August 2012
Patients and Agents

Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh

Callan, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
May 2011
Patrons of Women

Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

Hertzog, E.

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2019
PC Worlds

Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony

Friedman, J.

This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
eBook available November 2017
Peaceful Selves

Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

Eramian, L.

Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are still troubled by what made the violence possible and how they can know it will not recur. This study uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and modern nationhood concern not only political reform or economic development, but also transformations in the self.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available October 2014
People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis

Perspectives from the Global South

Hart, K. & Sharp, J. (eds)

The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available September 2012
Performing Place, Practising Memories

Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

Henry, R.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
October 2013
Peripheral Vision

Politics, Technology, and Surveillance

Frois, C.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
August 2009
Person and Place

Ideas, Ideals and Practice of Sociality on Vanua Lava, Vanuatu

Hess, S. C.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
November 2007
Picturing Pity

Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication.
Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission

Gullestad, M.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General)
October 2002
Pilgrim Voices

Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage

Coleman, S. & Elsner, J. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2018
Pilgrimage and Political Economy

Translating the Sacred

Coleman, S. & Eade, J. (eds)

Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow – and sometimes create – trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available February 2013
Places of Pain

Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities

Halilovich, H.

This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Memory Studies
June 2000
Placing London

From Imperial Capital to Global City

Eade, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2010
Plants, Health and Healing

On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology

Hsu, E. & Harris, S. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
July 2011
Playing Different Games

The Paradox of Anywaa and Nuer Identification Strategies in the Gambella Region, Ethiopia

Feyissa, D.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2019
Playing the Marginality Game

Identity Politics in West Africa

Schroven, A.

In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites, through the use of identity politics, employ history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies
eBook available September 2012
Playing with Languages

Children and Change in a Caribbean Village

Paugh, A. L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
eBook available September 2013
A Policy Travelogue

Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada

Kingfisher, C.

“This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.” · Judith Goode, Temple University

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available April 2011
Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology
March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance

Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
March 2006
The Politics of Egalitarianism

Theory and Practice

Solway, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology
eBook available December 2022
The Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Alber, E. (ed)

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
September 2014
The Polynesian Iconoclasm

Religious Revolution and the Seasonality of Power

Sissons, J.

Seeking an answer to why the event occurred the way that it did,The Polynesian Iconoclasm explores the ten years in the early nineteenth century during which inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen related societies destroyed or desecrated their temples and god-images. In the aftermath, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches were constructed, and oppressive laws and courts were introduced — and rebelled against.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
December 2005
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available August 2012
Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Explorations of Urban Coexistence

Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies

The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

Argenti, N. (ed)

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
eBook available March 2006
Postsocialism

Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Svasek M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available September 2009
Postsocialist Europe

Anthropological Perspectives from Home

Kurti, L. & Skalník, P. (Eds.)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
March 2011
Power and Magic in Italy

Hauschild, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2017
Power in Practice

The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

González Varela, S.

Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
eBook available May 2009
The Power of Law in a Transnational World

Anthropological Enquiries

Benda-Beckmann, F. von, Benda-Beckmann, K. von & Griffiths, A. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2007
The Power of Perspective

Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu

Rio, K, M.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2014
Powerless Science?

Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Boudia, S. & Jas, N. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology
June 2001
Powers of Good and Evil

Social Transformation and Popular Belief

Clough, P. & Mitchell, J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available March 2008
The Practice of War

Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Rao, A., Bollig, M. & Böck, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
April 2011
Practicing the Faith

The Ritual Life of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians

Lindhardt, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2022
The Precarity of Masculinity

Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon

Kovač, U.

This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
September 2008
Precious Pills

Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India

Prost, A.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available July 2013
Pregnancy in Practice

Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US

Han, S.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
October 2020
Preventing Dementia?

Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age

Leibing, A. & Schicktanz, S. (eds)

The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers’ prognosis.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available November 2019
Privileges of Birth

Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa

Rogerson, J. J. M.

Focussing ethnographically on private sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of birth attends to the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author offers a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
October 1999
The Problem of Context

Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere

Dilley, R. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
December 2007
The Problem of Money

African Agency & Western Medicine in Northern Ghana

Bierlich, B. M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies
August 2012
Problems of Conception

Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship

Melhuus, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
August 2007
Professional Identities

Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy

Ardener, S. & Moore, F. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available May 2022
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology
December 2004
Property and Equality

Volume II: Encapsulation, Commercialization, Discrimination

Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W.G. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
December 2004
Property and Equality

Volume I: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism

Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W.G. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)
May 2014
A Prophetic Trajectory

Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement

Blanes, R. L.

“Blanes’ multi-sited ethnographic-cum-historical study of a prominent Christian prophetic church of Angolan origin is an excellent piece of scholarship, and makes a unique contribution to the literature on Christianity in Africa and on African Christianity in Europe. More than other scholars in the emerging anthropology of Christianity, Blanes gives detailed attention to the interlocking of temporal and spatial dimensions in the context of diasporic religion and religious self-identification.” · Thomas Kirsch, University of Konstanz

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
December 2014
Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

Morris, B.

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
July 2015
Public Anthropology in a Borderless World

Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (eds)

Today anthropologists carry out the discipline’s original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition.

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available November 2022
Punching Back

Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing

Rana, J.

In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available August 2020
Punks and Skins United

Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

Venstel, A.

Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
July 2023
Pure Food

Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)

Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates variations and similarities in diverse cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies that define the pure food mindset.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2021
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work

Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England

Marchand, T. H. J.

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available December 2008
Pursuits of Happiness

Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

Mathews, G. & Izquierdo, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available March 2019
Raccomandazione

Clientelism and Connections in Italy

Zinn, D. L.

Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
December 2007
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

Wade, P. (ed)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
December 2005
Racism in Metropolitan Areas

Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available February 2015
Re-orienting Cuisine

East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century

Kim, K. O. (ed)

Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
June 2008
(Re)constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria

Ethno-Cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis

Migliorino, N.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2004
Rebordering the Mediterranean

Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Suárez-Navaz, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available September 2000
Recalling the Belgian Congo

Conversations and Introspection

Dembour, M.-B.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available April 2015
Reclaiming the Forest

The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya

Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)

The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available June 2018
Reconceiving Muslim Men

Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times

Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)

Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
August 2009
Reconceiving the Second Sex

Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available October 2013
Reconstructing Obesity

The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings

McCullough, M. & Hardin, J. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition
November 2011
Reconstructing the House of Culture

Community, Self, and the Makings of Culture in Russia and Beyond

Donahoe, B. & Habeck, J. O. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available May 2017
Redescribing Relations

Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics

Lebner, A. (ed)

Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available March 2016
Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

Evens, T. M. S., Handelman, D. & Roberts, C. (eds)

Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
April 1999
Refugee Policy in Sudan 1967-1984

Karadawi, A.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2018
Refugee Resettlement

Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance

Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.

The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
October 2015
Regimes of Ignorance

Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

Dilley, R. & Kirsch, T. G. (eds)

Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)

How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
October 2004
Religion and Nation

Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain

Spellman, K.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2021
Religion and Pride

Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion

Lang, N.

Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2015
Religion and Science as Forms of Life

Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason

Salazar, C. & Bestard, J. (eds)

The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world. This volume analyzes the relationships between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life

An Ethnographic Approach

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
eBook available January 2011
Religion, Politics, and Globalization

Anthropological Approaches

Lindquist, G. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available September 2016
Reluctant Intimacies

Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Świtek, B.

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available April 2021
Remaking the Human

Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Jarrín, A. & Pussetti, C. (eds)

The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now a part of our lives. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive, and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.

Subject: Medical Anthropology
February 2004
Remembering Karelia

A Family's Story of Displacement during and after the Finnish Wars

Armstrong, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present
eBook available December 2009
Remembering Violence

Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission

Argenti, N. & Schramm, K. (Eds.)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)
eBook available September 2019
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough

Ethnographic Responses

Martínez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)

We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies
eBook available February 2009
Reproducing Class

Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul

Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
October 2004
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available October 2007
Reproductive Disruptions

Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Inhorn, M. C. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
February 2017
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Volumes I-III

Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)

These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology
February 2004
Researching Food Habits

Methods and Problems

Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology
February 2023
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States

War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest

Keyel, J.

The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
April 2007
Resistance and the State

Nepalese Experiences

Gellner, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)
July 2007
Rethinking Migration

New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies
September 2005
The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
August 2022
The Return of Polyandry

Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

Fjeld, H. E.

This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available December 2017
Returning Life

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

Myhre, K. C.

Returning Life explores how language and action affect life force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Skrzypek, E. E.

The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available February 2021
Rhetoric and Social Relations

Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation

Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)

Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
May 2011
The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture

Meyer, C. & Girke, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available April 2020
Rhetorical Minds

Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion

Oakley, T.

As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
April 2005
Rights in Exile

Janus-Faced Humanitarianism

Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.

Subject: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2021
Risk on the Table

Food Production, Health, and the Environment

Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)

From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition
eBook available August 2022
Risky Futures

Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North

Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)

Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
July 2002
Risky Transactions

Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

Salter, F. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available August 2018
The Rite of Urban Passage

The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation

Masoudi, R.

Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion
eBook available September 2022
Ritual

What It Is, How It Works, and Why

Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.

Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion
January 2005
Ritual in Its Own Right

Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Handelman, D. & Lindquist, G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology
March 2015
Ritual Retellings

Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

Herrmans, I.

The book is an ethnography of belian, a lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans of Indonesian Borneo. This volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings, and highlights the irreducibility of lived reality to epistemological certainty.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available August 2018
Roma Activism

Reimagining Power and Knowledge

Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)

Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available February 2020
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available January 2017
The Romance of Crossing Borders

Studying and Volunteering Abroad

Doerr, N. M. & Davis Taïeb, H. (eds)

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Educational Studies
July 2023
Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available February 2018
Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces

Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
eBook available February 2012
Saltwater Sociality

A Melanesian Island Ethnography

Schneider, K.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
December 2004
Science, Magic and Religion

The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic

Bouquet, M. & Porto, N. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available April 2012
The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Dousset, L. & Tcherkézoff, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available December 2020
The Sea Commands

Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village

Mendes, P.

Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community and how they relate to the social inequalities towards property and labour which prevail today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
eBook available February 2023
A Sea of Transience

Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast

Khalvashi, T. & Demant Frederiksen, M. (eds)

Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Environmental Studies (General)
May 2002
A Sealed and Secret Kinship

The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption

Modell, J.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available September 2020
Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork

Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available May 2018
Searching for a Better Life

Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok

Mahony, S.

This book offers an ethnographic account of young people growing up in the slums of Bangkok, exploring their struggles to get by in conditions of severe structural constraint and the outcomes and side effects of their endeavours; in doing so, it offers an antidote to neoliberal assumptions about personal responsibility.

Subject: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
November 2010
Security and Development

McNeish, J.-A. & Sande Lie, J. H. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
December 2017
Seekers and Things

Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa

Lambertz, P.

Focusing on the intricate presence of a new Japanese religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localised picture of religious globalization.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available March 2022
Self in the World

Connecting Life's Extremes

Hart, K.

The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available November 2017
Selfhood and Recognition

Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality

Galuschek, A. C.

The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available April 2020
Selfishness and Selflessness

New Approaches to Understanding Morality

Layne, L. L. (ed)

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
eBook available July 2018
Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

Meyer, B. & van de Port, M. (eds)

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion," this volume explores the centrality of this tension to heritage formation worldwide.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
July 1996
A Sentimental Economy

Commodity and Community in Rural Ireland

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available March 2023
Set to See Us Fail

Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York

Castellano, V.

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
November 2010
Settling for Less

The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin

Dinero, S. C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General)
May 2005
Sex and the Empire That Is No More

Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion

Matory, J. L.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2022
Sexscapes of Pleasure

Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy

Zambelli, E.

Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.

Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
eBook available November 2022
Sexual Self-Fashioning

Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging

Roodsaz, R.

Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2020
Shamanism

Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

Jakobsen, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2017
Shaping Taxpayers

Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency

Björklund Larsen, L.

How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2012
Sharing the Sacra

The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places

Bowman, G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies
December 2005
Silence

The Currency Of Power

Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
August 2023
Silences and Divided Memories

The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society

Virloget, K. H.

Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
December 2001
Simulated Dreams

Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth

Hazan, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available December 2017
Singing Ideas

Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry

Ní Shíocháin, T.

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.

Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
January 2007
Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Grasseni, C. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology
eBook available March 2009
Social Bodies

Lambert, H. & McDonald, M. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
November 2003
The Social Construction of Diversity

Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations

Harzig, C. & Juteau, D. (eds)

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available October 2018
Social DNA

Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past

Martin, M. K.

Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
eBook available November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa

Ethnographic Approaches

Noret, J. (ed)

Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a unidimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available November 2013
The Social Life of Achievement

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
August 2013
The Social Life of Water

Wagner J. R. (ed)

“This book fills an important niche on water related issues in anthropology by focusing on social and cultural manifestations of water management, use, and conflict… The organization is appropriate and effective.” · Benedict J. Colombi, American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2022
The Social Origins of Thought

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

Schick, Johannes F. M.

The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project”.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology Media Studies
eBook available April 2009
Social Torture

The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006

Dolan, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available December 2012
Sociality

New Directions

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology
eBook available July 2013
Soldiering Under Occupation

Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Grassiani, E.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2019
Sometime Kin

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

Wallman, S.

Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by the intrusion of the anthropologist and the effect of informants observing her.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available September 2019
The Sound of Silence

Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism

Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)

Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. The volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available February 2018
Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand

Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

Fleischer, F.

Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available February 2021
South Africa's Dreams

Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia

Gordon, R. J.

In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available March 2020
Space, Place and Identity

Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century

Köhler, F.

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity

Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands

Sharples, R.

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement, and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)
March 1993
Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics

Case Studies from Food-Producing Societies

Holl, A. & Levey, T. E. (eds)

The papers in this volume examine the sociocultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors that condition spatial patterning of human behavior in food-producing (both agricultural and pastoral) societies. The spatially patterned material manifestations of that behavior are considered in the light of archaeological and ethnographical examples. Archaeological and ethnographic data sources are drawn primarily from Africa, as well as the ancient Near East.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
eBook available May 2008
Spirits and Letters

Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity

Kirsch, T. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History Educational Studies
eBook available December 2017
Staging Citizenship

Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania

Szeman, I.

Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
eBook available April 2017
Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Reyna, S. P.

Starry Nights formulates something of an un-canon: it critiques postmodernism while devising its own strategy for conducting research. It envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.

Subject: Theory and Methodology
April 2007
Starstruck

Cosmic Visions in Science, Religion, and Folklore

Harrison, A. A.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
eBook available March 2012
The State and the Social

State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies

Gulbrandsen, Ø

Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent success is not the result of Western ideas and practices of government having replaced indigenous ideas and structures. Rather, the postcolonial state of Botswana is best understood as a unique, complex formation, one that arose dialectically through the meeting of European ideas and practices with the symbolism and hierarchies of authority, rooted in the cosmologies of indigenous polities, and both have become integral to the formation of a strong state with a stable government.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2013
State Practices and Zionist Images

Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel

Wesley, D.A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available July 2016
The State We're In

Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

Cook, J., Long, N. J., & Moore, H. L. (eds)

What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
October 2004
State, Sovereignty, War

Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology
eBook available November 2017
Stategraphy

Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available August 2016
Staying at Home

Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans

Sanders, R.

This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Rita Sanders shows that social capital, including the power to influence identities, plays a key role in Kazakhstani German attitudes

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available August 2021
Stories from an Ancient Land

Perspectives on Wa History and Culture

Fiskesjö, M.

The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
August 2007
Strangers Either Way

The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home

Capo Žmegač, J.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2017
Straying from the Straight Path

How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

Beekers, D. & Kloos, D. (eds)

Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the increasingly separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, Straying from the Straight Path gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available October 2015
Street Vending in the Neoliberal City

A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy

Graaff, K. & Ha, N. (eds)

From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations, this urban practice also reveals global ties and developments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available May 2020
Structures of Protection?

Rethinking Refugee Shelter

Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)

Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together twenty-three essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
October 2008
Struggles for Home

Violence, Hope and the Movement of People

Jansen, S. & Löfving, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
May 2008
Struggling for Recognition

The Alevi Movement in Germany and in Transnational Space

Sökefeld, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance

Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
July 2009
Substantial Justice

An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

Goddard, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available September 2009
Substitute Parents

Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

Bentley, G. & Mace, R. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available October 2008
Suffering and Evil

The Durkheimian Legacy

Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
April 2007
Sustainability and Communities of Place

Maida, C. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available January 2020
Sustaining Indigenous Songs

Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia

Curran, G.

Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, Curran lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Cultural Studies (General)
eBook available August 2002
Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923

Trade and Travel, People and Politics

Ardener, S. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Travel and Tourism
October 1999
Taboo, Truth and Religion

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
eBook available September 2008
Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available August 2014
Talking Stones

The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Viggiani, E.

Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.

Subjects: Memory Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
August 1996
A Tamil Asylum Diaspora

Sri Lankan Migration, Settlement and Politics in Switzerland

McDowell, C.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
August 2006
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist

...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure

Vivanco, L. & Gordon, R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
eBook available March 2021
A Taste for Oppression

A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Hervouet, R.

Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
March 2006
Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology
June 2010
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

Edwards, J., Harvey, P. & Wade, P. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology
eBook available June 2022
Technology and the Common Good

The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society

Batteau, A. W.

Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons) the author examines how the different shared goods of a democratic society are shaped by technology and demonstrates how club goods, common pool resources, and public goods are supported, enhanced, and disrupted by technology.

Subject: Anthropology (General)
eBook available July 2021
Textures of Belonging

Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma

Racleş, A.

The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
June 2015
Thai in Vitro

Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction

Whittaker, A.

In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for couples using assisted reproductive technologies in the quest for a child. This ethnographic account of public and private clinics explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
August 2023
That Sinking Feeling

On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System

Wellgraf, S.

Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.

Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
October 2004
Theater and Political Process

Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand

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The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Maffi, I.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

About the Hearth

Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North

Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism

Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

Worsley, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies

The Case of France and Belgium

Merchant, J. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Adventures in Aidland

The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

Mosse, D. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Hobart, A. & Kapferer, B. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Affective States

Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

Fowler, I. & Zeitlyn, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Hannerz, U.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion

After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford

Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

After the Cult

Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)

Jebens, H.