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Forthcoming June 2026
Zora Neale Hurston

Böschemeier, A. & Gomes, P.

Exploring Zora Neale Hurston’s life and work through a decolonial lens, this book traces Hurston’s journey from her early life (1891–1919) and struggles at the margins (1920–1930) to her peak as a pioneering ethnographer and writer (1931–1956) and her later years (1957–1960).

Subject: Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming March 2026
Ibn Khaldun

Rosen, L.

Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond his North African homeland. His holistic approach foreshadowed modern social science, blending direct observation with cultural interpretation. A vital precursor to contemporary anthropology, his insights on solidarity, religion, and society remain relevant today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
eBook available Published July 2025
Elsdon Best

Holman, J. P. & Delgado Rosa, F.

This volume is dedicated to the New Zealander ethnographer Elsdon Best (1856-1931) who is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
The Riddle of Intelligence

It’s Not What You Think

Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.

There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. Looked at closely, it turns out this word belongs more in the realm of traditional folklore than modern science.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
Sex, Risk, and Society

When Is Sex Dangerous?

Pollock, S. H.

When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available Published February 2025
Representations of “Japanese Nature”

A Historical Overview

Ohnuki-Tierney, E.

“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2024
Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

After the end of the Second World War, major federally funded industries in Australia depended on the employment of large numbers of refugees displaced by the war. This book aims to bring to the foreground post-war industry and immigration to comprehensively document a uniquely Australian shaping of the built environment.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2024
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
Published March 2025
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

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

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published March 2024
Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2024
Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published 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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published 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

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Published August 2023
Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology
Published 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 Published 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

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eBook available Published August 2025
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)

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
The Spirit of Matter

Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

Pels, P.

A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their “life”. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of “mind over matter”.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Museum Studies
Forthcoming January 2026
Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020

Chiu, H.-C.

Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available Forthcoming February 2026
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 Published 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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published 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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2026
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
Forthcoming January 2026
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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published 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

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Forthcoming February 2026
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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published December 2025
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 Published August 2025
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)

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2026
Working the Fabric

Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry

Nascimento, J.

Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
Forthcoming January 2026
The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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 Forthcoming June 2026
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)
eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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 Published July 2025
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)

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Published January 2025
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
eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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 Forthcoming March 2026
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)
Published January 2025
Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This book provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology of Religion
Published February 2025
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)
Published December 2024
This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology
eBook available Forthcoming March 2026
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 Published October 2025
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)

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Published February 2025
Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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 Forthcoming April 2026
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 Published 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

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Published October 2024
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) Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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) Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published March 2025
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

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eBook available Published 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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published November 2024
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)

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Published September 2024
Managing Sacralities

Competing and Converging Claims of Religious Heritage

Hemel, E. van den, Salemink, O., & Stengs, I. (eds)

What happens when religious sites, objects and practices become cultural heritage? Case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom present an analysis of the paradoxes and challenges that arise when religious sites are transformed into heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology of Religion
Published December 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published February 2025
Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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Published October 2024
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 Published October 2024
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic

Augé , C. R.

By bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published November 2024
Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published July 2025
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

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Published August 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published July 2022
Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published February 2024
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

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eBook available Forthcoming March 2026
Museum Times

Changing Histories in South Africa

Witz, L.

Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. The author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)
Published April 2024
Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published January 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published January 2024
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

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Published July 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published July 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published May 2025
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)

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2026
African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies
eBook available Published June 2024
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

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Published 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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Forthcoming January 2026
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
Published September 2024
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 Forthcoming April 2026
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
eBook available Published 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)

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Published 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
Published February 2022
Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published November 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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Published June 2024
Refugees on the Move

Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe

Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)

Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
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 Published February 2025
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

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published September 2024
We are All Africans Here

Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe

Loftsdóttir, K.

This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published 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 Forthcoming January 2026
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 Published April 2024
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

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eBook available Published May 2024
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.

Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2023
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)

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eBook available Published April 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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Published February 2024
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published April 2024
Transforming Author Museums

From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

Spring, U., Schimanski, J., & Aarbakke, T. (eds)

Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies. The book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.

Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies

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Published September 2023
Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published November 2023
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)

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Published January 2024
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 Anthropology (General)
eBook available Forthcoming June 2026
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 Published February 2024
Traumatic Pasts in Asia

History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)

Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2023
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)

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eBook available Published March 2023
Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Knight, D. M.

Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2024
Latin America and Refugee Protection

Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published December 2024
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)

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eBook available Published March 2024
Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Bender, S. O.

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published August 2021
William Robertson Smith

Bošković, A.

William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published June 2023
Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

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Published May 2023
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 Published 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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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Published July 2023
Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees

Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America

Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)

Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence and bears witness to their struggles.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published May 2024
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)

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Published May 2023
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 Forthcoming May 2026
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)
eBook available Published February 2024
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

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eBook available Published December 2023
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)

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eBook available Published June 2023
Sovereign Forces

Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America

McNeish, J.-A.

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published May 2024
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

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eBook available Published July 2024
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

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eBook available Published March 2024
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

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Published June 2023
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) Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published July 2025
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)

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eBook available Published April 2023
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)

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eBook available Published February 2025
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

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eBook available Published March 2024
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

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eBook available Published February 2024
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

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eBook available Published November 2024
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Forthcoming February 2026
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe

Representations, Transfers and Exchanges

Šístek, F. (ed)

As a Slavic-speaking religious and ethnic “Other” living just a stone’s throw from the symbolic heart of the continent, the Muslim peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina have long occupied a liminal space in the European imagination. This volume assembles contributions from historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and literary scholars to examine the political, social, and discursive dimensions of Bosnian Muslims’ encounter with the West.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology of Religion
eBook available Published June 2024
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

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eBook available Published August 2024
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

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eBook available Published January 2021
Unlocking the Love-Lock

The History and Heritage of a Contemporary Custom

Houlbrook, C.

A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance155. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This book explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2020
Shamanism

Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing

Jakobsen, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2023
Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2023
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

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
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 Published November 2023
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

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eBook available Published January 2025
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

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eBook available Published April 2025
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

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eBook available Published November 2025
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 Published September 2024
What Now

Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Dalley, C.

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2024
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

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Published June 2023
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 Published March 2023
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 Applied Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published October 2024
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)

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eBook available Published March 2024
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

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Published June 2023
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)
Published August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?

Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness

Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)

From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published August 2023
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) Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published April 2022
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

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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Published June 2020
States of Imitation

Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule

Ladwig, P. & Roque, R. (eds)

Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2022
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 Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published March 2023
Time Work

Studies of Temporal Agency

Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2024
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

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eBook available Published October 2022
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

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
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)
eBook available Published February 2023
Theorising Media and Conflict

Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)

Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2024
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

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eBook available Published February 2023
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

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Published 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)
eBook available Published August 2024
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

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eBook available Published September 2022
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

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eBook available Published January 2020
Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2023
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

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eBook available Published November 2025
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)

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eBook available Published August 2023
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)

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eBook available Published January 2023
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published October 2025
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published November 2023
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

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eBook available Published February 2023
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published February 2022
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)

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eBook available Published November 2022
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

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published October 2019
Playing with the Past

Exploring Values in Heritage Practice

Clark, K.

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? And how do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action-learning book about heritage.

Subjects: Museum Studies Heritage Studies Archaeology

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published December 2024
Water, Life, and Profit

Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published September 2022
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

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eBook available Published April 2023
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)

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eBook available Published June 2022
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

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eBook available Published May 2025
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published October 2023
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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published December 2022
When Will We Talk About Hitler?

German Students and the Nazi Past

Oeser, A.

What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.

Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies

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eBook available Published March 2025
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

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eBook available Published May 2022
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)

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eBook available Published January 2025
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

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published August 2022
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

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eBook available Published September 2023
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

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Published September 2022
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
eBook available Published October 2025
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)

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eBook available Published March 2023
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) Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published October 2022
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

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eBook available Published 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 Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published January 2021
Magical House Protection

The Archaeology of Counter-Witchcraft

Hoggard, B.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was a deep and enduring presence in popular culture; people created and concealed many objects to protect themselves from harmful magic. Detailed are the principal forms of magical house protection in Britain and beyond from the fourteenth century to the present day.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published October 2025
Planning Labour

Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Cucu, A.-S.

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process required for achieving socialist accumulation.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2022
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 Published 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

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eBook available Published February 2023
Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)

Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume attempts to rethink (and unthink) development discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors explore the ways in which legacies of colonialism impact development, as well as other factors such as regional politics, corruption, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published October 2023
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)

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eBook available Published September 2022
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)

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eBook available Published July 2022
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)

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Published December 2022
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 Published August 2023
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

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eBook available Published January 2019
Refugees Welcome?

Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany

Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)

Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.

Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published November 2022
Views of Violence

Representing the Second World War in German and European Museums and Memorials

Echternkamp, J. & Jaeger, S. (eds)

The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies

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eBook available Published November 2021
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

Edling, N. (ed)

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2023
Politics of Scale

New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies

Lähdesmäki, T., Thomas, S., & Zhu, Y. (eds)

Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies

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eBook available Published December 2023
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)

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eBook available Published November 2020
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

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Published February 2023
Europeanization in Sweden

Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations

Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)

This volume brings together new empirical research into how the process of European integration has played out in Sweden. Europeanization in Sweden not only offers insights into how Europeanization is enacted on the ground, but also addresses the question of whether and how the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published November 2018
Curating Live Arts

Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice

Davida, D., Pronovost, M., Hudom, V., & Gabriels, J. (eds)

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project. Curating Live Arts brings together innovative essays from international theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline.

Subjects: Performance Studies Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2025
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

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eBook available Published April 2020
The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls

The Adventures of Eugène Boban

MacLaren Walsh, J. & Topping, B.

Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugène Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology

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eBook available Published June 2022
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)

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eBook available Published August 2020
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

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eBook available Published October 2020
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

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eBook available Published October 2020
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

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eBook available Published April 2023
Travelling towards Home

Mobilities and Homemaking

Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)

This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published September 2021
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

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eBook available Published May 2023
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

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eBook available Published October 2021
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

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eBook available Published August 2020
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

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eBook available Published October 2020
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

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eBook available Published November 2020
Nation Branding in Modern History

Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)

Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies

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eBook available Published May 2025
The Wheel of Autonomy

Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley

Girke, F.

Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published August 2018
Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2023
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published August 2020
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

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eBook available Published August 2020
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2026
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
eBook available Published 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.

Subject: Archaeology Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity

Comparing Beyond Europe

Rakopoulos, T. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published September 2024
Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)

Who do ‘we’ anthropologists think ‘we’ are? Drawing together reflections and ethnographic case studies, this volume explores how the anthropological ‘we’ has been construed, transformed and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. It interrogates how these constructions have influenced the discipline, and opens spaces in which they might be reimagined.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2022
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

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eBook available Published August 2020
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

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eBook available Published March 2022
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

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eBook available Forthcoming April 2026
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 Published October 2019
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

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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 Published December 2021
Waiting for Elijah

Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape

HadžiMuhamedović, S.

Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, it examines the complexity of time situated between folk cosmology, political constructions of history and bodily experiences of a landscape in transition.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published September 2021
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published March 2020
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)

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eBook available Published November 2025
Oil and Sovereignty

Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s

Graf, R.

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily increasing prices and reduced production raised the specter of an uncertain future for many.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published March 2019
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)

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Published February 2022
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
eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
Urban Dreams

Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso

Roth, C.
de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)

This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
eBook available Published June 2025
The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

Chew, S. C.

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published May 2020
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

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eBook available Forthcoming May 2026
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 Published July 2022
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

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eBook available Published October 2021
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

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Published November 2019
The Witness as Object

Video Testimony in Memorial Museums

Jong, S. de

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum object” in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the “musealisation” of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies Memory Studies
eBook available Published September 2021
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

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eBook available Forthcoming June 2026
The Partial Revolution

Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
eBook available Published April 2025
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published April 2020
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published July 2021
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

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eBook available Published December 2020
Visitors to the House of Memory

Identity and Political Education at the Jewish Museum Berlin

Bishop Kendzia, V.

By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.

Subjects: Museum Studies Jewish Studies Educational Studies Memory Studies

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eBook available Published March 2023
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

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eBook available Published October 2020
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)

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eBook available Published 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

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Published January 2023
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 Published September 2019
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

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eBook available Published October 2023
Vital Diplomacy

The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia

Nahum-Claudel. C.

Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2020
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

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eBook available Published June 2020
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)

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eBook available Published July 2021
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

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eBook available Published May 2020
From Eastern Bloc to European Union

Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990

Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)

This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published December 2020
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

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eBook available Published April 2020
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

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eBook available Published December 2019
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)

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eBook available Published September 2021
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)

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eBook available Published April 2023
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)

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eBook available Published August 2019
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published January 2022
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)

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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eBook available Published May 2020
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

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eBook available Published September 2020
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

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eBook available Published February 2021
Transborder Media Spaces

Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US

Kummels, I.

Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2021
Civil Society Revisited

Lessons from Poland

Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)

In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2023
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) Sustainable Development Goals
eBook available Published October 2020
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)

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eBook available Published June 2022
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

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eBook available Published August 2019
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published June 2019
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

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eBook available Published September 2020
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

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published September 2019
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

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eBook available Published February 2020
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife

A Biosocial Approach

Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)

Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners to consider the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published December 2018
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000

Hilson, M., Neunsinger, S., & Vyff, I. (eds)

Notwithstanding Nordic countries’ reputation for strong labour movements, the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here explore themes such as work, unions, politics and migration in the Nordic states from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2018
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

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eBook available Published October 2018
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)

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published October 2018
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

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eBook available Published August 2020
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)

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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.

Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
eBook available Published August 2019
Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice

Pink, S., Fors, V., & O'Dell, T. (eds)

Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published October 2018
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)

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eBook available Published September 2019
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

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eBook available Published September 2019
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

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eBook available Published January 2019
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

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eBook available Published September 2019
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

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eBook available Published October 2020
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

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eBook available Published June 2020
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

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eBook available Published January 2020
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)

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published January 2022
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)

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eBook available Published September 2020
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published June 2021
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

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Published March 2018
Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities

Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

Orttung, R. (ed)

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain.

Subjects: Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals

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eBook available Published April 2018
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

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Published July 2020
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

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eBook available Published 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

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eBook available Published August 2019
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)

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Published October 2016
Trees, Knots, and Outriggers

Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring

Damon, F. H.

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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eBook available Published August 2019
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)

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eBook available Published February 2020
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)

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eBook available Published December 2019
From Craftsmen to Capitalists

German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953

McKitrick, F. L.

As Hitler consolidated power, German artisans emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, after 1945, they became one of the pillars of postwar stability. This volume gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how tradesmen helped to realize German democratization and recovery.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2021
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

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Published 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 Published September 2018
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

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eBook available Published September 2016
War Magic

Religion, Sorcery, and Performance

Farrer, D. S. (ed)

This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Performance Studies

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eBook available Published October 2018
'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) Geography

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Published August 2023
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 Published October 2021
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)

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eBook available Published December 2021
Divining History

Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit

Svenungsson, J.

Messianic ideas of impending redemption have inspired and engendered struggles for justice, yet also violent utopian ideologies. This book analyzes the double-edged legacy of Judeo-Christian theologies of history by exploring their impact on subsequent philosophies of history and political ideologies, from Ancient Judaism, through German Romanticism, to contemporary radical thought.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion History (General)

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eBook available Published July 2019
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

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Published August 2016
Violent Becomings

State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique

Bertelsen, B. E.

Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Colonial History
eBook available Published August 2019
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

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eBook available Published April 2018
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

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eBook available Published May 2020
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

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published May 2019
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

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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eBook available Published March 2018
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

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eBook available Published July 2019
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

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eBook available Published June 2018
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

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eBook available Published February 2020
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)

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Published September 2022
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
eBook available Published April 2016
Witches and Demons

A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism

La Fontaine, J.

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. This volume explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. It presents a powerful warning of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that are inevitable in untrained ideas about other ways of life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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eBook available Published July 2018
World Heritage on the Ground

Ethnographic Perspectives

Brumann, C. & Berliner, D. (eds)

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies

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eBook available Published April 2020
Trusting and its Tribulations

Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust

Broch-Due, V. & Ystanes, M. (eds)

Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published February 2018
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

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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eBook available Published September 2017
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

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Published December 2022
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 Published November 2017
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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eBook available Published October 2018
Who Knows Tomorrow?

Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

Calkins, S.

Uncertainty, though intertwined with all human activity, is experienced differently—sometimes obsessed over and other times ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns, which at times present debilitating problems, but also may offer opportunities to create other futures.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published January 2023
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)

For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History
Published 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)
Published April 2018
Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba

Simoni, V.

Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Comparing a wide array of these experiences, the author uses tourism to offer a new understanding of how relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published February 2020
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

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eBook available Published August 2021
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)

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eBook available Published February 2020
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)

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Published May 2020
Ultimate Ambiguities

Investigating Death and Liminality

Berger, P. & Kroesen, J. (eds)

Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities” as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published July 2017
Waterworlds

Anthropology in Fluid Environments

Hastrup, K. & Hastrup. F. (eds)

In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published February 2018
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

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eBook available Published November 2015
Time and the Field

Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2019
Museum Websites and Social Media

Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust and Diversity

Sánchez Laws, A. L.

Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies

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eBook available Published September 2020
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

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Published September 2017
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)

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Published October 2017
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

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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Published September 2017
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

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eBook available Published March 2020
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

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Published October 2015
What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity

Banton, M.

Academic writing about race in the USA implicitly endorses the so-called `one-drop' rule. This generates a paradox that can be resolved only by distinguishing theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published October 2020
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)

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eBook available Published September 2020
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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2020
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

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Published June 2017
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

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eBook available Published 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

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Published June 2020
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

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Published April 2018
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
eBook available Published November 2017
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)

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Published May 2017
Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana

Adinkrah, M.

Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on these alleged witches.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published June 2017
Masks and Staffs

Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

Pelican, Michaela

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2017
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

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Published January 2018
The Enemy on Display

The Second World War in Eastern European Museums

Bogumił, Z., Wawrzyniak, J., Buchen, T., Ganzer, C. & Senina, M.

Eastern European museums represent the traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the bombardment of Dresden, in ways that cast the enemy in a specific light. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence over the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can play an important role in this process.

Subjects: Museum Studies History: World War II Memory Studies

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Published June 2017
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

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Published April 2018
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

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eBook available Published May 2019
Faithfully Urban

Pious Muslims in a German City

Kuppinger, P.

A pious Muslim population lives in the southern German city of Stuttgart, where, even in the face of resentment and discrimination, they create meaningful lives. The author introduces and examines the lives of these individuals and communities, set within a city that accommodates the needs and sensibilities of both Muslims and non-Muslims.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published March 2018
Yearnings in the Meantime

'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

Jansen, S.

An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,” over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2018
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)
eBook available Published October 2017
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)

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eBook available Published 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)

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Published May 2020
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

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eBook available Published February 2020
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)

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Published April 2017
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)

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Published October 2017
What Is Existential Anthropology?

Jackson, M. & Piette, A. (eds)

What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2018
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

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Published July 2018
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

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Published April 2017
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)

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Published 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

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Published July 2018
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

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Published April 2017
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

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eBook available Published September 2018
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

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Published May 2017
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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
Published February 2018
Thinking Through Sociality

An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts

Amit, V. (ed)

Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of older, classical theories of sociality with more recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of topics. Contributors focus on key concepts of sociality — disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network — and how these can be used to think through ethnographic situations.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published February 2015
Trapped in the Gap

Doing Good in Indigenous Australia

Kowal, E.

Trapped in the Gap explores what happens when a group of state-supported, intelligent and well-meaning people attempt to help without harming. This group of “white anti-racists” find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds, a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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eBook available Published February 2017
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey

Balkan, N., Balkan, E. & Öncü, A. (eds)

By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published January 2020
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

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eBook available Published March 2019
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

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eBook available Published March 2019
The Political Economy of Border Drawing

Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies

Paul, R.

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published October 2017
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

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Published November 2016
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other

Cullinane, M. P. & Ryan, D. (eds)

John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2016
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)

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eBook available Published September 2016
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

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eBook available Published September 2016
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

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eBook available Published September 2016
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

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Published May 2017
Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents

Glick Schiller, N. & Irving, A. (eds)

Whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—from a range of different disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates cosmopolitanism’s emergence as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2017
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)

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eBook available Published October 2017
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

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eBook available Published September 2016
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)

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eBook available Published October 2017
Vehicles

Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination

Lipset, D. & Handler, R. (eds)

On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they relate to culture, politics and history.

Subjects: Transport Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published February 2016
Up, Down, and Sideways

Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power

Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)

Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2016
Tourism Imaginaries

Anthropological Approaches

Salazar, N. B. & Graburn, N. H. H. (eds)

As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2016
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

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eBook available Published June 2021
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

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eBook available Published May 2016
From Antiquities to Heritage

Transformations of Cultural Memory

Eriksen, A.

What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies Heritage Studies

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eBook available Published October 2016
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

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eBook available Published March 2016
Exhibiting Europe in Museums

Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, and Representations

Kaiser, W., Krankenhagen, S. & Poehls, K.

Museums of history and contemporary culture face many challenges in the modern age, particularly in Europe where processes of Europeanization and globalization require more cross-border cooperation and different ways of telling stories for visitors. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, and people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy and collections as well as different strategies for making narratives more transnational like telling stories of European integration as shared history and discussing both inward and outward migration as a common experience and challenge.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies

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Published September 2017
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

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eBook available Published March 2016
The Ethics of the New Eugenics

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2016
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

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Published April 2018
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

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eBook available Published March 2014
Arab Spring

Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Fosshagen, K. (ed)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2016
Powerless Science?

Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Boudia, S. & Jas, N. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology

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eBook available Published April 2016
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky

Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India

LaDousa, C.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2016
Durkheim in Dialogue

A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Hausner, S. L. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published September 2015
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)

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eBook available Published April 2016
The Social Life of Achievement

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2013
Transcultural Montage

Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds)

“This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.” · Martin Holbraad, University College London

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Museum Studies

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eBook available Published March 2016
Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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eBook available Published October 2015
Reconstructing Obesity

The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings

McCullough, M. & Hardin, J. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Food & Nutrition

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eBook available Published March 2016
Being Human, Being Migrant

Senses of Self and Well-Being

Grønseth, A. S. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published February 2016
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

Pb
eBook available Published April 2017
The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published May 2016
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

Pb
eBook available Published May 2016
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

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

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published August 2013
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

A Critical Synthesis

Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
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

Pb
eBook available Published February 2015
The Body in Balance

Humoral Medicines in Practice

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

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published March 2015
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)

Pb
eBook available Published July 2013
Toward Engaged Anthropology

Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2016
Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

Poser, A. von

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published July 2015
Pregnancy in Practice

Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US

Han, S.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2016
Elusive Promises

Planning in the Contemporary World

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

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published 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)

Pb
eBook available Published July 2015
Ethics in the Field

Contemporary Challenges

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
Up Close and Personal

On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published September 2015
Bedouin of Mount Sinai

An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy

Marx, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2015
Transitions and Transformations

Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

Lynch, C. & Danely, J. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published April 2016
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)

Pb
eBook available Published February 2015
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2017
Capricious Borders

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

Demetriou, O.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published July 2021
Militant Lactivism?

Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Faircloth, C.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
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

Pb
eBook available Published March 2015
Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2015
Distributed Objects

Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Literary Studies

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
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

Pb
eBook available Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
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)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2015
Debating Authenticity

Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2014
Sociality

New Directions

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2014
Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
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)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
Wind Over Water

Migration in an East Asian Context

Haines, D. W., Yamanaka, K. & Yamashita, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2014
Performing Place, Practising Memories

Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State

Henry, R.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2015
Landscapes Beyond Land

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Árnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J. & Whitehouse, A. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2015
Ogata-Mura

Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village

Wood, D. C.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
Playing with Languages

Children and Change in a Caribbean Village

Paugh, A. L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2014
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)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
Post-cosmopolitan Cities

Explorations of Urban Coexistence

Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
eBook available Published August 2014
A Durkheimian Quest

Solidarity and the Sacred

Watts Miller, W.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
Anyone

The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2015
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

Pb
eBook available Published September 2015
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Sunni and Shia Perspectives

Inhorn, M. C. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2015
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America

Natures, Subjects and Struggles

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2014
Learning From the Children

Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

Harrison, S.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2016
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes

An Anthropology of Everyday Religion

Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
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

Pb
eBook available Published April 2014
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Mobility Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Dousset, L. & Tcherkézoff, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2014
Differentiating Development

Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

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

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2014
Extreme Collecting

Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums

Were, G. & King, J. C. H. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Archaeology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2013
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)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Writing the Dark Side of Travel

Skinner, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

Pb
eBook available Published October 2014
Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2015
Tuff City

Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

Dines, N.

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2014
The Cult and Science of Public Health

A Sociological Investigation

Dew, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published November 2014
Identity Politics and the New Genetics

Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Schramm, K., Skinner, D., & Rottenburg, R. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published December 2011
War, Technology, Anthropology

Stroeken, K. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published August 2013
Young Men in Uncertain Times

Amit, V. & Dyck, N. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2013
Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

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

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
Anthropologies of Education

A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling

Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2011
The Challenge of Epistemology

Anthropological Perspectives

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2013
Tourism, Magic and Modernity

Cultivating the Human Garden

Picard, D.

“...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.” · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published May 2017
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment

The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

Pb
eBook available Published June 2013
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)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2013
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Zigon, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
The Allure of Capitalism

An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis

Røyrvik, E. A.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published August 2013
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

Pb
eBook available Published November 2013
Indigenous Peoples and Demography

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2013
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

Pb
eBook available Published June 2013
Youth Gangs and Street Children

Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia

Heinonen, P.

The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives — as they describe it in their own words — this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published August 2013
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)

Pb
Published April 2023
Patrons of Women

Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

Hertzog, E.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published November 2013
The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2016
The Dream in Islam

From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration

Edgar, I. R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published May 2013
Liquid Bread

Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Schiefenhövel, W. and Macbeth, H. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published May 2011
Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory

Sánchez Laws, A. L.

Subjects: Museum Studies Memory Studies

Pb
eBook available Published April 2011
Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
Adventures in Aidland

The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

Mosse, D. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Religion, Politics, and Globalization

Anthropological Approaches

Lindquist, G. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2010
Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
Medicine Between Science and Religion

Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Adams, V., Schrempf, M. & Craig, S. R. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published November 2010
Theorising Media and Practice

Bräuchler, B. & Postill, J. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2013
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

Pb
eBook available Published November 2010
The Long Way Home

The Meaning and Values of Repatriation

Turnbull, P. & Pickering, M. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Salazar, N.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published January 2023
Settling for Less

The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin

Dinero, S. C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
Published November 2010
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

A Critical Stance

Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published November 2010
Security and Development

McNeish, J.-A. & Sande Lie, J. H. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Unsafe Motherhood

Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala

Berry, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Plants, Health and Healing

On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology

Hsu, E. & Harris, S. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2013
Flexible Firm

The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen

Krause-Jensen, J.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2014
The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

Manger, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published February 2014
Urban Pollution

Cultural Meanings, Social Practices

Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
The Ways of Friendship

Anthropological Perspectives

Desai, A. & Killick, E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Moral Power

The Magic of Witchcraft

Stroeken, K.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
The Land Is Dying

Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

Geissler, P. W. & Prince, R. J.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
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

Pb
eBook available Published May 2012
Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Gressgård, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2013
The Ethnographic Self as Resource

Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Morality, Hope and Grief

Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

Dilger, H. & Luig, L. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2013
Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

Weszkalnys, G.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

Pb
eBook available Published October 2013
Beyond Writing Culture

Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2013
News as Culture

Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions

Rao, U.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
After the Cult

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

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2012
Godless Intellectuals?

The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented

Riley, A. T.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2013
Human Nature as Capacity

Transcending Discourse and Classification

Rapport, N. (ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2010
China in Oceania

Reshaping the Pacific?

Wesley-Smith, T. & Porter, E. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published February 2010
Changes in Museum Practice

New Media, Refugees and Participation

Skartveit & Goodnow, K. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Landscape Ethnoecology

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue

and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology

Rebel, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2012
The New Media Nation

Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication

Alia, V

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Remembering Violence

Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission

Argenti, N. & Schramm, K. (Eds.)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2013
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)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Turning the Tune

Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village

Kaul, A.

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Ethnographic Practice in the Present

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

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
United in Discontent

Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization

Theodossopoulos, D. & Kirtsoglou, E. (eds)

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
Virtualism, Governance and Practice

Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Deleuzian Intersections

Science, Technology, Anthropology

Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2013
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)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Unveiling the Whale

Discourses on Whales and Whaling

Kalland, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Substitute Parents

Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

Bentley, G. & Mace, R. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Postsocialist Europe

Anthropological Perspectives from Home

Kurti, L. & Skalník, P. (Eds.)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published August 2010
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

McCourt, C. (ed)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published September 2013
The Anthropology of Moralities

Heintz, M. (Ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
A Walk to the River in Amazonia

Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians

Stang, C. D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Culture and Rhetoric

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2010
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter

Reflections on Research in and of Corporations

Cefkin, M. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2014
Markets and Civil Society

The European Experience in Comparative Perspective

Perez-Diaz, V. (ed)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2011
Islam and New Kinship

Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

Clarke, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, S. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published July 2012
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Carrithers, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
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)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2019
State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo

Sörensen, J. S.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2012
When God Comes to Town

Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts

Pinxten, R. & Dikomitis, L. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Alarming Reports

Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

Arno, A.

Subjects: Media Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published February 2012
The Mirage of China

Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World

Liu, X.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published February 2011
Social Torture

The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006

Dolan, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
eBook available Published February 2012
Landscape, Process and Power

Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

Heckler, S. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2012
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)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
Crisis of the State

War and Social Upheaval

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published February 2011
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)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2012
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology

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

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Kinship and Beyond

The Genealogical Model Reconsidered

Bamford, S. & Leach, J. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Social Bodies

Lambert, H. & McDonald, M. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published June 2010
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)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2012
Transgressive Sex

Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters

Donnan, H. & Magowan, F. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published November 2010
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 Published November 2010
Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

Kirby, P. W. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2009
Pursuits of Happiness

Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective

Mathews, G. & Izquierdo, C. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2010
Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published November 2010
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)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2009
Enduring Socialism

Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published November 2010
Embodied Communities

Dance Traditions and Change in Java

Hughes-Freeland, F.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published August 2010
Health, Risk, and Adversity

Panter-Brick, C. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published November 2021
I Dreamed the Animals

Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter

Henriksen, G.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Suffering and Evil

The Durkheimian Legacy

Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published June 2011
Struggles for Home

Violence, Hope and the Movement of People

Jansen, S. & Löfving, S. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2008
Conceiving Kinship

Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe

Bonaccorso, M. M. E.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published October 2008
An Anthropology of War

Views from the Frontline

Waterston, A. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2010
Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published September 2008
Scandinavian Museums and Cultural Diversity

Goodnow, K. & Akman, H. (eds)

Subject: Museum Studies

Pb
eBook available Published September 2008
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union

Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion

Roth, S. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2010
How Enemies Are Made

Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Schlee, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2010
The Impact of Electricity

Development, Desires and Dilemmas

Winther, T.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
eBook available Published January 2010
Melanesian Odysseys

Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity

Josephides, L.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2012
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism

Levey, G. B. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published June 2008
Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

Loizos, P.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2009
Anthropology as Ethics

Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

Evens, T. M. S.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published September 2012
Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2011
Spirits and Letters

Reading, Writing and Charisma in African Christianity

Kirsch, T. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History Educational Studies

Pb
Published April 2008
Knowing How to Know

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Halstead, N., Hirsch, E., & Okely, J. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published August 2010
Difficult Folk?

A Political History of Social Anthropology

Mills, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
Published September 2009
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

Pb
Published October 2010
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

Pb
Published April 2008
The Nomads of Mykonos

Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space

Bousiou, P.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published March 2010
Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Boškovic, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published March 2008
Museums, the Media and Refugees

Stories of Crisis, Control and Compassion

Goodnow, K, Lohman, J. & Marfleet, P. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
eBook available Published March 2011
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

Pb
Published March 2011
Empathy and Healing

Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology

Skultans, V.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published October 2010
Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Crossing the Boundaries Within

Graburn, N., Ertl, J. & Tierney, R. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published November 2011
Where There Is No Midwife

Birth and Loss in Rural India

Pinto, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published November 2010
'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)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2011
Order and Disorder

Anthropological Perspectives

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies

Pb
eBook available Published May 2010
The Discipline of Leisure

Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

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

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 2011
Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Baerenholdt, J. O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

Pb
eBook available Published July 2009
Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Blatterer, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published September 2009
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Perspectives from Kinship and Genetics

Wade, P. (ed)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2008
Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

Pb
Published September 2009
Visual Interventions

Applied Visual Anthropology

Pink, S. (ed.)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies

Pb
eBook available Published October 2009
Consuming the Inedible

Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2009
Fetishes and Monuments

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

Sansi, R.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2009
Traveling Cultures and Plants

The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Pieroni, A. & Vandebroek, I. (eds)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published September 2011
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany

Usborne, C.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published September 2009
The Manual of Ethnography

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2009
A History of Oxford Anthropology

Rivière, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2011
Holistic Anthropology

Emergence and Convergence

Parkin, D. & Ulijaszek, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published December 2008
Reproductive Disruptions

Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Inhorn, M. C. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published October 2008
Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2010
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

Pb
Published September 2007
The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’

Nonini, D. M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published March 2011
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

Pb
Published June 2011
Strangers Either Way

The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home

Capo Žmegač, J.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 2008
Rethinking Migration

New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published March 2011
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Ellen, R. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
eBook available Published December 2008
The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, N. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published May 2007
Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Mimica, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published 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

Pb
Published May 2007
Medical Identities

Healing, Well Being and Personhood

Maynard, K. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
Published June 2011
Fire in the Dark

Telling Gypsiness in North East England

Buckler, S.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 2011
Sustainability and Communities of Place

Maida, C. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published October 2007
Exploring Gypsiness

Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

Engebrigtsen, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published February 2007
Identifying with Freedom

Indonesia after Suharto

Day, T (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published September 2007
Disenchantment with Market Economics

East Germans and Western Capitalism

Müller, B.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published November 2009
Skilled Visions

Between Apprenticeship and Standards

Grasseni, C. (ed)

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published March 2009
Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2008
Names and Nunavut

Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland

Alia, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published October 2006
Heart of Lightness

The Life Story of an Anthropologist

Turner, E.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published September 2006
The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

Evens, T. M. S. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published October 2007
The Limits of Meaning

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

Engelke, M. & Tomlinson, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published April 2007
The Kinning of Foreigners

Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

Howell, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Pb
Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2007
The Romani Movement

Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe

Vermeersch, P.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published December 2007
Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

Vivanco, L. A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
eBook available Published November 2009
Changing Properties of Property

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

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published October 2008
Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published May 2006
Languages of Civil Society

Wagner, P. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published October 2008
Centering the Margin

Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published May 2006
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

Dumont, L.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published May 2006
Navigating Terrains of War

Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

Vigh, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2007
Transnational Nomads

How Somalis Cope with Refugee Life in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya

Horst, C.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published June 2020
Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published January 2008
Postsocialism

Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe

Svasek M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published March 2006
The Politics of Egalitarianism

Theory and Practice

Solway, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published February 2006
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Nowotny, H. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published December 2005
Silence

The Currency Of Power

Achino-Loeb, M.-L. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

Brown, S. & Volgsten, U. (eds)

Subject: Cultural Studies (General) Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 2008
The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ellen, R.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 2005
Traditions of East Asian Travel

Fogel, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2005
Conjuring Hope

Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Lindquist, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
eBook available Published December 2005
Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Marcus, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2005
Applications of Anthropology

Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century

Pink, S. (ed)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published December 2005
Racism in Metropolitan Areas

Pinxten, R. & Preckler, E. (eds)

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published December 2005
Multiple Medical Realities

Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine

Johannessen, H. & Lázár, I. (eds)

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published December 2006
Fracturing Resemblances

Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

Harrison, S.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 2008
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published December 2006
Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published November 2005
Development-induced Displacement

Problems, Policies and People

de Wet, Chris (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 2006
Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology

Bertelsen, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender

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

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published September 2005
The Logic of Environmentalism

Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published September 2005
The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published August 2005
Oligarchs and Oligopolies

New Formations of Global Power

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published September 2006
Pathways to Heaven

Contesting Mainline and Fundamentalist Christianity in Papua New Guinea

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 2005
The World Ahead

An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published April 2009
Documenting Transnational Migration

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

Antoun, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2006
Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

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

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published October 2006
Breast Feeding and Sexuality

Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Mabilia, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published June 2005
Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

Jackson, M.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2006
Critical Junctions

Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History: 20th Century to Present

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published October 2007
Bodies of Evidence

Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus

Sant Cassia, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

Pb
Published April 2020
The Nature of Sociology

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published April 2005
Rights in Exile

Janus-Faced Humanitarianism

Verdirame, G. & Harrell-Bond, B.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published January 2005
Ritual in Its Own Right

Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Handelman, D. & Lindquist, G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 2004
Day of the Dead

When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca

Haley, S. & Fukuda, C.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published January 2006
Property and Equality

Volume II: Encapsulation, Commercialization, Discrimination

Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W.G. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published January 2006
Property and Equality

Volume I: Ritualization, Sharing, Egalitarianism

Widlok, T. & Tadesse, W.G. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2005
Grammars of Identity / Alterity

A Structural Approach

Baumann, G. & Gingrich, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published March 2006
A New Look At Thai Aids

Perspectives from the Margin

Fordham, G.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Development Studies

Pb
Published April 2006
Science, Magic and Religion

The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic

Bouquet, M. & Porto, N. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2005
Transactions and Creations

Property Debates and The Stimulus of Melanesia

Hirsch, E. & Strathern, M. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2004
The World Trade Center and Global Crisis

Some Critical Perspectives

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published January 2004
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Yamashita, S., Bosco, J., & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published November 2005
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State

Cultural Transformations in Childbearing

Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published October 2004
State, Sovereignty, War

Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 2005
Religion and Nation

Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain

Spellman, K.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 2005
Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

Llobera, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published August 2004
Anthropology and Consultancy

Issues and Debates

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

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published November 2005
Rebordering the Mediterranean

Boundaries and Citizenship in Southern Europe

Suárez-Navaz, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

Pb
Published July 2004
Globalization

Some Critical Issues

Chun, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2004
Corporate Scandal

Global Corporatism against Society

Gledhill, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published July 2004
Expert Knowledge

First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology

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

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published February 2004
Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education

Dracklé, D. and Edgar, I. R. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Educational Studies

Pb
Published February 2004
Researching Food Habits

Methods and Problems

Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published October 2006
Who Owns the Past?

The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village

Kaneff, D.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published December 2003
Girl Making

A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female

Bloustien, G.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2004
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

Pb
Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published October 2006
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

Pb
Published 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

Pb
eBook available Published December 2004
Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

Pb
Published November 2004
Radical Ethnic Movements in Contemporary Europe

Daftary, F. & Troebst, S. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Pb
Published January 2018
The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Stacul, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2003
An Invitation to Anthropology

The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies

Llobera, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2003
On Prayer

Text and Commentary

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

Pb
Published August 2004
Creative Land

Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

Leach, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published September 2004
Papua New Guinea's Last Place

Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

Reed, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2005
Anthropology & Law

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published October 2004
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

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

Subjects: Educational Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published December 2005
A Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano

Sciama, L. D.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published May 2005
Aging in Today's World

Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician

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

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published March 2009
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published March 2005
Troubles with Turtles

Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island

Theodossopoulos, D.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
eBook available Published November 2004
Ethnographies of Conservation

Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published February 2003
Beyond Rationalism

Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published January 2003
French Women in Politics: Writing Power

Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies

Ramsay, R. L.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
eBook available Published December 2002
Globalization in Southeast Asia

Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

Yamashita, S. & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

Pb
Published December 2002
Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

Friese, H. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Literary Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published March 2003
Defiance and Compliance

Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

El-Kholy, H.A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2002
Pilgrim Voices

Narrative and Authorship in Christian Pilgrimage

Coleman, S. & Elsner, J. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2002
Montesquieu

His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published July 2003
Durkheim Today

Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
eBook available Published 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

Pb
Published July 2002
Risky Transactions

Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity

Salter, F. K. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published July 2003
Bali and Beyond

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism

Yamashita, S.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2002
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation

Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation

Abdo, N. & Lentin, R. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published June 2002
Tourism

Between Place and Performance

Coleman, S. & Crang, M. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published May 2002
A Sealed and Secret Kinship

The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption

Modell, J.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published December 2001
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?

Women, Spirituality and the Environment

Low, A. & Tremayne, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sustainable Development Goals

Pb
Published November 2001
Managing Reproductive Life

Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality

Tremayne, S. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
eBook available Published December 2001
Modern Babylon?

Prostituting Children in Thailand

Montgomery, H.

Subject: Medical Anthropology

Pb
Published January 2002
Cameroon's Tycoon

Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Pb
Published December 2001
Drinking

Anthropological Approaches

Garine, I. & V. de (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published December 2001
Simulated Dreams

Zionist Dreams for Israeli Youth

Hazan, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published October 2001
Themes in French Culture

A Preface to a Study of French Community

Mead, M. & Metraux, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published August 2001
Political Demography, Demographic Engineering

Weiner, M, & Teitelbaum, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published July 2001
Whatever Happened to Asylum in Britain?

A Tale of Two Walls

Pirouet, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published February 2001
War on the Homefront

An Examination of Wife Abuse

Haley, S. & Braun-Haley, E.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury

The Construction of Religious Movements

Prince, R. & Riches, D.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published December 2000
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published January 2001
Morals of Legitimacy

Between Agency and the System

Pardo, I. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published October 2000
Anthropologists in a Wider World

Essays on Field Research

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb
Published July 2004
Food for Health, Food for Wealth

Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities

Harbottle, L.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published December 2001
Recalling the Belgian Congo

Conversations and Introspection

Dembour, M.-B.

Subjects: Colonial History Anthropology (General) Sociology

Pb
Published August 2011
At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

Gray, J. N.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance

Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published July 2000
And Keep Your Powder Dry

An Anthropologist Looks at America

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published June 2001
Placing London

From Imperial Capital to Global City

Eade, J.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 1999
Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published November 1999
Essay on Time

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

Hubert, H.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1999
Taboo, Truth and Religion

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published October 1999
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1999
The Problem of Context

Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere

Dilley, R. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life

An Ethnographic Approach

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb
Published April 1999
Braving the Street

The Anthropology of Homelessness

Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
eBook available Published January 1999
The End of the Refugee Cycle?

Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published December 1998
Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Pb
Published 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

Pb
Published October 1998
Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Handelman, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

Pb
Published January 2001
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

Pb
Published January 2001
Autonomy

Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists

Rao, A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published November 1997
Food Preferences and Taste

Continuity and Change

Macbeth, H.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 2003
Indigenous Rights and Development

Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published August 2003
The Last Shaman

Change in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies

Pb
Published November 1996
The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia

Formoso, B. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published August 2003
Mythology, Spirituality, and History

Gray, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Development Studies Literary Studies

Pb
Published September 1996
Understanding Impoverishment

The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement

McDowell, C. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

Pb
Published August 1996
After Socialism

Land Reform and Social Change in Eastern Europe

Abrahams, R. (ed)

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

Pb
Published July 2003
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon

Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

Ardener, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Pb
Published July 1996
Coping with Tourists

European Reactions to Mass Tourism

Boissevain, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 1996
African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Pb
Published July 1996
Insiders and Outsiders

Paradise and Reality in Mallorca

Waldren, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published July 1996
The Hegemonic Male

Masculinity in a Portuguese Town

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published November 1997
Food and the Status Quest

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Pb
Published March 1996
The Politics of Cultural Performance

Parkin, D., Caplan, L. & Fisher, H. (eds)

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Pb
Published February 1996
Sexual Politics and the European Union

The New Feminist Challenge

Elman, R. A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published December 1997
Toward a Global Civil Society

Walzer, M. (ed)

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published June 1996
The Power of the Story

Fiction and Political Change

Hanne, M.

Subjects: Literary Studies History (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb
Published 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)

Pb

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Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Rosen, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Elsdon Best

Holman, J. P. & Delgado Rosa, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

The Riddle of Intelligence

It’s Not What You Think

Terrell, J., Anderson, E., Bandama, F., Ghosh, A., & Leenen-Young, M.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

Sex, Risk, and Society

When Is Sex Dangerous?

Pollock, S. H.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Representations of “Japanese Nature”

A Historical Overview

Ohnuki-Tierney, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Immigrant Industry

Building Postwar Australia

Pieris, A., Lozanovska, M., Dellios, A., Saniga, A., & Beynon, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism

Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

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

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

Love, Loyalty and Deceit

Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men

Firth, H. & Brown, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present

Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Once Upon a Time is Now

A Kalahari Memoir

Biesele, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies

Romani Chronicles of COVID-19

Testimonies of Harm and Resilience

Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

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

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

The Spirit of Matter

Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects

Pels, P.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Archaeology Museum Studies

Visions of Marriage

Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020