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‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

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24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

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

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

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Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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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

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Published April 2008
Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

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

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Published December 2001
Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

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

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Published April 2008
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

Worsley, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published June 2005
Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

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

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

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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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Published July 1996
African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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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

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Published July 2021
After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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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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After the Cult

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

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2011
After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

Feuchtwang, S.

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

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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)

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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

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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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Published December 2008
Against Machismo

Young Adult Voices in Mexico City

Ramirez, J.

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

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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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Published June 2015
Aging and the Digital Life Course

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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Alarming Reports

Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

Arno, A.

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

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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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All or None

Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt

Sánchez Hall, A.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula

An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia

Matošević, A.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Amazonian Puzzle

Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations

Boyer, V.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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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Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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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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Published July 2014
Americans in Tuscany

Charity, Compassion, and Belonging

Trundle, C.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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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)

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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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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)

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The Annoying Difference

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

Hervik, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Anthropologies of Education

A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling

Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (ed)

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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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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Anthropology Now and Next

Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz

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

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

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

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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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Published August 2011
The Anthropology of Empathy

Experiencing the Lives of Others in Pacific Societies

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

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

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

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

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The Anti-Social Contract

Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia

Højer, L.

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

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Arab Spring

Uprisings, Powers, Interventions

Fosshagen, K. (ed)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Archaeogaming

An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games

Reinhard, A.

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

Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)

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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)

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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

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The Art of Fate Calculation

Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng

Homola, S.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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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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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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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Bayly, S.

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

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

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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 2013
Astonishment and Evocation

The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology

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

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

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At Home in a Nursing Home

An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia

Zhang, A. R. Y.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published August 2000
At Home in the Hills

Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders

Gray, J. N.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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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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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Atlantic Perspectives

Places, Spirits and Heritage

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies

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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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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

New Lives of Old Imaginaries

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published June 1998
Autonomy

Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists

Rao, A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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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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Published July 2002
Bali and Beyond

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism

Yamashita, S.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Becoming Other

Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

Berliner, D.

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing 'exo-experiences.'

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Literary Studies

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Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City

Fahy, J.

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2001
Bedouin Century

Education and Development among the Negev Tribes in the Twentieth Century

Abu-Rabia, A.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2013
Bedouin of Mount Sinai

An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy

Marx, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2014
Being a State and States of Being in Highland Georgia

Mühlfried, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies

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Being and Becoming

Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra

Elkholy, R.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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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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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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Being Human, Being Migrant

Senses of Self and Well-Being

Grønseth, A. S. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Belonging in Unhomely Homelands

Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs

Grujić, M.

Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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)

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Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

Weszkalnys, G.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography

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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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Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Bravo Díaz, A.

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

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

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Published October 2011
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism

Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800-2000

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Forthcoming November 2024
Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism

Evocative Moments in Doing Ethnography

Shokeid, M.

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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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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Beyond Pain

The Anthropology of Body Suspensions

Manfredi, F.

Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2015
Beyond the Lens of Conservation

Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

Keller, E.

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

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

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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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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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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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Published October 2016
Biomedical Entanglements

Conceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society

Herbst, F. A.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

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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)

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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)

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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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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)

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Published August 2007
Blood and Oranges

Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece

Lawrence, C. M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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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Boaters of London

Alternative Living on the Water

Bowles, B. O. L.

London and the Southeast of England is home to many people living along rivers and canals. Boaters of London delves into the process of becoming a ‘boater’ and the political impact of the travelling population on the state. It examines an alternative style of living and the potential of a life spent afloat.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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Published May 2005
Bodies of Evidence

Burial, Memory and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus

Sant Cassia, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published November 2009
The Body in Asia

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology of Religion

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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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Border Encounters

Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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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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Published November 2003
The Bounded Field

Localism and Local Identity in an Italian Alpine Valley

Stacul, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published April 1999
Braving the Street

The Anthropology of Homelessness

Glasser, I. & Bridgman, R.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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Brazilian Steel Town

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

Mollona, M.

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

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

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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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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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Breathing Hearts

Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany

Selim, N.

Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
Published March 2008
'Brothers' or Others?

Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt

Fábos, A. H.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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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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Published August 2015
Bush Bound

Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa

Gaibazzi, P.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published December 2001
Cameroon's Tycoon

Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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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)

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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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Capricious Borders

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

Demetriou, O.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Capturing Quicksilver

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

Smith, A. A.

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

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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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

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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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Cattle Poetics

How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia

Eczet, J.-B.

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

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

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Published May 2006
Centering the Margin

Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published November 2012
Central America in the New Millennium

Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy

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

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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)

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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)

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Changing Properties of Property

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

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

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

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

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

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Children are Everywhere

Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin

Joshi, M.

This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Forthcoming May 2025
Children Dancing in Bali

Practice, Performance, and Power

McIntosh, J.

An illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, Children Dancing in Bali examines how children navigate the nexus of power, practice, and performance through the medium of Balinese culture, in order to negotiate fluctuations in their identity and society.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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The Children of Gregoria

Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family

Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies

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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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Choreographies of Landscape

Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park

Ness, S. A.

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

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

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Published November 2012
Christian Politics in Oceania

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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'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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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

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Claiming Homes

Confronting Domicide in Rural China

Bruckermann, C.

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

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

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

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

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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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Collective Terms

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

Epstein, B. S.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2013
Colonial Collecting and Display

Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Wintle, C.

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

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Published February 2013
The Colours of the Empire

Racialized Representations during Portuguese Colonialism

Matos, P. F. de

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Coming of Age in Times of Uncertainty

Blatterer, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Communication

A House Seen from Everywhere

Klyukanov, I. E.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Communities of Complicity

Everyday Ethics in Rural China

Steinmüller, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published November 1996
Communities of Faith

Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island

Buckser, A.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Competing Power

Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State

Halstead, N.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Compliance

Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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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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Consuming the Inedible

Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2015
Contemporary Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Europe

Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses

Rountree, K. (ed)

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published June 2011
Contested Mediterranean Spaces

Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly

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

Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2010
Contested Nationalism

Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s

Caspersen, N.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Contesting Moralities

Roma Identities, State and Kinship

Sarafian, I.

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

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

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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

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Continental Encampment

Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

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

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

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

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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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Conversations on the Beach

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

Hoeppe, G.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2009
Conversion After Socialism

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

Pelkmans, M. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2007
Coping with Distances

Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies

Baerenholdt, J. O.

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

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Coping with Tourists

European Reactions to Mass Tourism

Boissevain, J. (ed)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Correcting the Record

Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Lewis, H. S.

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
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Cosmic Coherence

A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination

Matthews, W.

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

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

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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

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The Cracked Art World

Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

Rush, K.

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

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

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Crafting Chinese Memories

The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

Swancutt, K. (ed)

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

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

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Crafting 'The Indian'

Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

Kalshoven, P. T.

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

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Published June 2013
Creating a Nation with Cloth

Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora

Addo, P.-A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published November 2016
Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy

Action Research in Higher Education

Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America

Anthropological Perspectives

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 2003
Creative Land

Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea

Leach, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

Schraten, J.

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

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published March 2014
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia

Knörr, J.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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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

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Crisis of the State

War and Social Upheaval

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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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 December 2005
Crossing European Boundaries

Beyond Conventional Geographical Categories

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Crossroads of Heritage and Religion

Legacy and Sustainability of World Heritage Site Moravian Christiansfeld

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

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

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

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

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published July 2023
Cryptopolitics

Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

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

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

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

A Sociological Investigation

Dew, K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology

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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)

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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

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Culture Change and Ex-Change

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

Knapp, R.

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

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

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Culture Figures

A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology

Mokrzan, M.

Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in cultural anthropology.

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

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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

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Published March 2014
Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published February 2006
Cultures of Technology and the Quest for Innovation

Nowotny, H. (ed)

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

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Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Collins, B. & Nowell, A. (eds)

The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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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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Published March 2013
Cyberidentities At War

The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet

Bräuchler, B.

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

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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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Dancing At the Crossroads

Memory and Mobility in Ireland

Wulff, H.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies

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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)

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Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

Harrison, S.

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

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Published December 2004
Day of the Dead

When Two Worlds Meet in Oaxaca

Haley, S. & Fukuda, C.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2016
Deadly Contradictions

The New American Empire and Global Warring

Reyna, S. P.

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

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)

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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

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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

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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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Published November 2016
Death, Materiality and Mediation

An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

Graham, B.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion

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Published December 2002
Defiance and Compliance

Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo

El-Kholy, H.A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

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

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

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published June 2021
Delta Life

Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea

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

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

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

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Democracy Struggles

NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia

Vetta, T.

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

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

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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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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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Forthcoming January 2025
Desert Entanglements

The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara

Volpato, G.

The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled to reconfigure the badiya for five years of exile. They are recovering camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and weaving it back as seasonal nomadism.Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
Published January 2009
Developing Skill, Developing Vision

Practices of Locality at the Foot of the Alps

Grasseni, C.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2015
Developmentality

An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership

Sande Lie, J. H.

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

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2011
Diasporic Generations

Memory, Politics, and Nation among Cubans in Spain

Berg, M. L.

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

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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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Difference and Sameness in Schools

Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education

Gilliam, L. & Markom, C. (eds)

Through eleven case studies across Europe, this book looks at the handling of difference and sameness in European schools from an anthropological perspective. It offers insights into the diversity of and within these central institutions and, in a broader sense, European society itself.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Differentiating Development

Beyond an Anthropology of Critique

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

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2021
Digital Archives and Collections

Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage

Müller, K.

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

Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2014
Dignity for the Voiceless

Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context

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

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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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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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)

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The Discipline of Leisure

Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

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

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Distributed Objects

Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Literary Studies

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Documenting Transnational Migration

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

Antoun, R.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2002
The Domain of Constant Excess

Plural Worship at the Munnesvaram Temples in Sri Lanka

Bastin, R.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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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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The Dream in Islam

From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration

Edgar, I. R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Forthcoming April 2025
Dreaming and the Imagination

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Newsom, M. D. (eds)

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Sociology
eBook available Published May 2018
Dreams Made Small

The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia

Munro, J.

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

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

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Dressing Up

Menswear in the Age of Social Media

Bluteau, J. M.

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

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

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Published December 2001
Drinking

Anthropological Approaches

Garine, I. & V. de (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Durable Solutions

Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia

Funke, C.

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies

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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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Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts

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

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

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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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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa

An Axel Sommerfelt Collection

Sommerfelt, A., (au) Sommerfelt, T., Jakoubek, M., & Eriksen, T. H. (eds)

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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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

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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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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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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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Published February 2015
Economy and Ritual

Studies of Postsocialist Transformations

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

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

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2015
Economy for and Against Democracy

Hart, K. (ed)

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

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

Carrier, J. G. (ed)

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Edges, Fringes, Frontiers

Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana

Henfrey, T. B.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Edible People

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

Siefkes, C.

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Published June 2006
The Education of Nomadic Peoples

Current Issues, Future Perspectives

Dyer, C.

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

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Published July 2024
Egalitarian Dynamics

Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is anthropology’s one of most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality. Engaging with topical issues across the globe – from neuroscience to open access publishing and refugee experience in Europe, it launches Turner’s fundamental work into the future.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy

Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

Zeitzen, M. K.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Elusive Promises

Planning in the Contemporary World

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

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2008
Embodied Communities

Dance Traditions and Change in Java

Hughes-Freeland, F.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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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)

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Emptiness and Fullness

Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China

Bregnbæk, S. & Bunkenborg, M. (eds)

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Enacted Relations

Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community

Tamisari, F.

Enacted Relations explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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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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Published July 2009
Encounter, Transformation, and Identity

Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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Published September 2011
Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices

Anthropological Reflections

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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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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The End of the Refugee Cycle?

Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Enduring Socialism

Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2016
Enduring Uncertainty

Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life

Hasselberg, I.

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

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published March 2022
Engaging Environments in Tonga

Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World

Perminow, A. A.

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

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

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Engaging the Spirit World

Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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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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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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Environment and Citizenship in Latin America

Natures, Subjects and Struggles

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia

Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

Salazar, N.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Forthcoming April 2025
Esther Newcomb Goody Revisited

Engaging with the Legacy of an Original Interdisciplinarian

Bodenhorn, B., Fenitman, A., & Goody, M. (eds)

This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand their understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
eBook available Published March 2012
Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published October 2013
Ethno-Baroque

Materiality, Aesthetics and Conflict in Modern-Day Macedonia

Dimova, R.

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

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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)

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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

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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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An Ethnographic Chiefdom

Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)

Balaš, N.

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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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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Ethnographies of Conservation

Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space

Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)

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

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

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Published April 2021
Ethnographies of Power

A Political Anthropology of Energy

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

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

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

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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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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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Published September 2015
European Products

Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus

Welz, G.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies

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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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eBook available Published June 2021
Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society

A Journey from Envy to Personhood

Souvlakis, N.

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris

In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia

Broz, L.

The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies. It also hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for their misfortunes. This book explores the divergent fates of such claims.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology

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eBook available Published July 2023
Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

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

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

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

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eBook available Published April 2021
Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Nichols, C. A.

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

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

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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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The Experience of Neoliberal Education

Urciuoli, B. (ed)

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

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2021
Experiencing Materiality

Museum Perspectives

Gamberi, V.

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

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

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Published November 2007
Experiencing New Worlds

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

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Exploring Gypsiness

Power, Exchange and Interdependence in a Transylvanian Village

Engebrigtsen, A.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2008
Exploring Regimes of Discipline

The Dynamics of Restraint

Dyck, N.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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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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Published November 2011
Extreme Heritage Management

The Practices and Policies of Densely Populated Islands

Baldacchino, G. (ed)

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

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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 Published September 2020
Facing the Crisis

Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published March 2013
Factions, Friends and Feasts

Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean

Boissevain, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Doerr, N. M.

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

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

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The Familial Occult

Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography

Coțofană, A. (ed)

The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Forthcoming December 2024
Family Beyond Family

The Varieties of Kinship Experience

Shipton, P. & Ito-Adler, J. P. (eds)

Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship formations, while observing and examining the principles and purposes behind them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
Published June 2013
Family Upheaval

Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark

Rytter, M.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Fate Calculation Experts

Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China

Li, G.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Feeding Anxieties

The Politics of Children's Food in Poland

Boni, Z.

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Feeling of the Fall

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

Taccone, I.

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

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

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Fetishes and Monuments

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

Sansi, R.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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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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Fig Trees and Humans

Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures

Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y.

Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published July 2015
Figuration Work

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

Nielsen, G. B.

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

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2015
Figurations of the Future

Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe

Krøijer, S.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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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)

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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)

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Published May 2007
Fire in the Dark

Telling Gypsiness in North East England

Buckler, S.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

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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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Published December 2008
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey

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

Knudsen, S.

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

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Published March 2015
Flexible Capitalism

Exchange and Ambiguity at Work

Kjaerulff, J. (ed)

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Floating Economies

The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India

Casimir, M. J.

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Food and Families in the Making

Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco

Graf, K.

Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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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)

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Published May 1996
Food and the Status Quest

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Food Connections

Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration

Abranches, M.

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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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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Published September 2000
Food for Health, Food for Wealth

Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities

Harbottle, L.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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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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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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Published November 1997
Food Preferences and Taste

Continuity and Change

Macbeth, H.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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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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Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the YucatÁn

Ayora-Diaz, S. I.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Foodways and Empathy

Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea

Poser, A. von

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2017
Footprints in Paradise

Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa

Murray, A. E.

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

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

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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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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)

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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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Published October 2004
Foundations of National Identity

From Catalonia to Europe

Llobera, J.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2005
Fracturing Resemblances

Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West

Harrison, S.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Fragile Futures

Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso

Samuelsen, H.

Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in people’s engagements and hopes for a better future.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Development Studies

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Framing Africa

Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

Eltringham, N. (ed)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Anthropology (General) History (General)

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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 April 2015
The Franco-Mauritian Elite

Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change

Salverda, T.

Mauritian Independence in 1968 marked the end of the heyday of the island’s Franco-Mauritian elite, who are now is faced with a more diverse power constellation. This book focuses on the power of these white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities, and addresses how this group aims to prolong its position over time.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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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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Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing

The Soninké Foyer in Paris

Accoroni, D.

Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.

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

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Franz Baermann Steiner

A Stranger in the World

Adler, J. & Fardon, R.

Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years.

This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Literary Studies

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Published May 2014
Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa

Anthropological Perspectives

Guichard, M., Grätz, T., & Diallo, Y. (eds)

Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2017
From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

Rakopoulos, T.

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition

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Forthcoming April 2025
From Legacies to Futures

The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

Seidel, K., Prendergast, D., & Saris, A. J.

Through ninety-four ethnographic case studies of community dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book highlights the importance of agency, friction between self-perceptions on age and outside impositions and the need to deconstruct old age as a homogenizing category of belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Sociology
eBook available Published January 2023
From Missionaries to Main Street

The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States

Gilhooly, D.

The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. The book provides historical and cultural information on the Sgaw Karen people against the backdrop of the Htoo family’s path from Burma to Thailand.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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From Storeroom to Stage

Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore

Urdea, A.

Tracing in reverse the journey of a collection of Romanian folk objects from a museum in London back to the villages where they were made, From Storeroom to Stage explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies

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Forthcoming March 2025
From Triads to Pentads

Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen

Allen, N. J. (au) & Parkin, R. (ed)

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
Published June 2023
From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Trémon, A.-C.

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology
eBook available Published June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society

Government and Hegemony in Serbia

Mikuš, M.

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

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

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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)

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The Future of Indigenous Museums

Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, N. (ed)

Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published June 2013
The Gaddi Beyond Pastoralism

Making Place in the Indian Himalayas

Wagner, A.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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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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Gender, Power, and Non-Governance

Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?

Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)

Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power.

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

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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)

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The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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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)

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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)

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Glimpses of Hope

The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, house building, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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The Global Life of Austerity

Comparing Beyond Europe

Rakopoulos, T. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Globalization in Southeast Asia

Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Published May 2008
God-botherers and Other True-believers

Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious Right

Bailey, F. G.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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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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Going Forward by Looking Back

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

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

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Published February 2019
Going to Pentecost

An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism

Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.

Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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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)

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eBook available Published May 2017
The Good Holiday

Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique

Baptista, J. A.

Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, this volume explores the influence of development and tourism in relation to ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Travel and Tourism

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eBook available Published May 2017
Grace after Genocide

Cambodians in the United States

Mortland, C. A.

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published May 2022
Grazing Communities

Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

Bindi, L. (ed)

The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

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Published October 2011
Great Expectations

Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism

Skinner, J. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Published November 1998
The Great Immigration

Russian Jews in Israel

Siegel, D.

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

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Published February 2015
The Great Reimagining

Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland

Hocking, B. T.

Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle.

Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2013
Greek Whisky

The Localization of a Global Commodity

Bampilis, T.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published June 2006
Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

Vivanco, L. A.

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

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Published August 2013
Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships

Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

Coupaye, L.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Heritage Studies

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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)

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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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Published November 2015
Gypsy Economy

Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century

Brazzabeni, M., Ivone Cunha, M., & Fotta, M. (eds)

Roma and Gypsy economic arrangements are complexly related to social position. Authors ethnographically studied these complexities, exploring how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Hadrami Diaspora

Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim

Manger, L.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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Forthcoming March 2025
Haunting Ruins

Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Gamberi, V. & Calzana, C. (eds)

Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
Published November 2006
Heart of Lightness

The Life Story of an Anthropologist

Turner, E.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published July 1996
The Hegemonic Male

Masculinity in a Portuguese Town

Vale de Almeida, M.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2020
Heirs of the Bamboo

Identity and Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese

Gaspar, M. C.

Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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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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eBook available Published November 2020
The Helmand Baluch

A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan

Amiri, G. R.

The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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Published October 2016
The Heritage Arena

Reinventing Cheese in the Italian Alps

Grasseni, C.

The Heritage Arena describes the ways in which cheese has been reinvented as a form of cultural heritage through the negotiation and competition of many actors, including cheese-makers, merchants, and Slow Food activists.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition

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eBook available Published November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia

Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity

Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)

This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)

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Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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 November 2020
Homo Itinerans

Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan

Monsutti, A.

This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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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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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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The Horse in My Blood

Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains

Peemot, V. S.

Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.

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

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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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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)

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eBook available Published January 2024
Houses Transformed

Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building

Alderman, J. & Stolz, R. (eds)

Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies

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eBook available Published September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?

Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted

Hadley, R. A.

The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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How Kinship Systems Change

On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification

Parkin, R.

Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2019
How Materials Matter

Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific

Were, G.

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

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

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Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective

Past Meets Present

Moffat, T. & Prowse, T. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Archaeology

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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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Humanism Revisited

An Anthropological Perspective

Pinxten, R.

As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.

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

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Humanitarian Shame and Redemption

Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece

Mogstad, H.

Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean“, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published April 2016
Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

Sciama, L.D. (ed)

Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.

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

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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)

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eBook available Published October 2016
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness

An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland

Rakowski, T.

Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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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Published October 2008
I Dreamed the Animals

Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter

Henriksen, G.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Hb
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Published December 2002
Identities

Time, Difference and Boundaries

Friese, H. (ed)

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

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Published August 1997
Identity, Gender and Poverty

New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan

Unnithan-Kumar, M.

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

Hb
eBook available Published August 2017
Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.

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

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eBook available Published July 2011
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

Friedman, J. T.

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Published February 1999
Immigrants and Bureaucrats

Ethiopians in an Israeli Absorption Center

Hertzog, E.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published September 2008
The Impact of Electricity

Development, Desires and Dilemmas

Winther, T.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published June 2021
In Memory of Times to Come

Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Demian, M.

Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?

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

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In Pursuit of Belonging

Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces

Rottmann, S, B.

The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published January 2016
In Search of Legitimacy

How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

Griffith, L. M.

Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published August 2006
In Search of Salt

Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880-1960

Quinn, F.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published September 2015
In the Absence of the Gift

New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community

Rasmussen, A. E.

Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

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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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eBook available Published March 2023
In the Meantime

Toward an Anthropology of the Possible

Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)

The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.

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

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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)

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Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology

Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot

Mallios, S., Gonzalez, S. L., Grone, M., Hull, K. L., Nelson, P., & Siliman, S. W. (eds)

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

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Published October 2007
Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices

Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy

Però, D.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2018
Indeterminacy

Waste, Value, and the Imagination

Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)

What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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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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Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Steur, L.

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published August 2011
Indigenous Peoples and Demography

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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

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Published September 1997
Indigenous Rights and Development

Self-Determination in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2009
Indispensable Eyesores

An Anthropology of Undesired Buildings

Hoorn, M. v der

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

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eBook available Published November 2023
Individually Ourselves

Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School

Winkler-Reid, S.

Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published March 2018
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Innovation and Implementation

Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)

Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

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Published July 1996
Insiders and Outsiders

Paradise and Reality in Mallorca

Waldren, J.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

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Institutionalised Dreams

The Art of Managing Foreign Aid

Drążkiewicz, E.

How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published April 2023
Integrating Strangers

Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

Ménard, A.

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
eBook available Published May 2014
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

Essays in Historical Realism

Smith, G.

“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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Published February 2024
Invisible Labours

The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England

Middlemiss, A. L.

Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductive politics of this specific category of pregnancy loss in England.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
eBook available Published October 2019
Inward Looking

The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective

Marinov, A. G.

Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published April 2013
Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland

Zenker, O.

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

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Published June 2008
Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus

Loizos, P.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2018
Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean

Siegel, P. (ed)

Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.

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

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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 November 2010
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence

Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa

Biesele, M. & Hitchcock, R. K.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2016
Keywords of Mobility

Critical Engagements

Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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Published July 1996
Kingdom on Mount Cameroon

Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970

Ardener, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Hb
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Published August 2006
The Kinning of Foreigners

Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

Howell, S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published October 2007
Kinship in Europe

Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900)

Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Published December 2014
Kinship, Community, and Self

Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean

Coy, J., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Verhoeven, C. (eds)

David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. The significance of Sabean’s scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean’s impact on the discipline of history.

Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2022
Land and the Mortgage

History, Culture, Belonging

Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published January 2021
Lands of the Future

Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

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

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Landscape Ethnoecology

Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space

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

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

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eBook available Published April 2009
Landscape, Process and Power

Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

Heckler, S. (ed)

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

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eBook available Published September 2012
Landscapes Beyond Land

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

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

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published April 2011
Landscapes of Relations and Belonging

Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea

Anderson, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Published November 2015
Language and Identity Politics

A Cross-Atlantic Perspective

Späti, C. (ed)

In a multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a often fraught subject, as evidenced by new legislation and heated public debates in many societies. This volume traces the contours of these complex phenomena, examining the interaction of language, identity, and political activity across Europe and North America.

Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2016
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances

The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance

Sikand, N.

Odissi dance has transformed over the centuries from an Indian temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book reveals the complexity of odissi as it is practiced today, at the intersection of identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal economics.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 1997
The Last Shaman

Change in an Amazonian Community

Gray, A.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2006
Le Malaise Creole

Ethnic Identity in Mauritius

Boswell, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2012
Learning From the Children

Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Mobility Studies

Hb
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Published February 2014
Learning Senegalese Sabar

Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar

Bizas, E.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published March 2015
Learning Under Neoliberalism

Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education

Hyatt, S. B., Shear, B. W., & Wright, S. (eds)

As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more intimate relationships with corporate interests and more closely resemble for-profit corporations in both structure and practice. The contributors to this volume use ethnographic methods to investigate the multi-faceted impacts of neoliberal restructuring, while reporting on their own pedagogical responses, at universities in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2016
Leaving Footprints in the Taiga

Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters

Brandišauskas, D.

Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate dramatic environmental and social changes that have unfolded in post-Soviet Siberia.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published September 2013
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation

From Territorial Subject to American Citizen

Schachter, J.

“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii

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

Hb
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Published July 2015
Legal Dissonance

The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea

Larcom, S.

Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state criminal law — undermine each other in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, can lead to an activity being advanced by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice and each legal order’s diminished ability to deter wrongdoing.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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
Published December 2006
Lela in Bali

History through Ceremony in Cameroon

Fardon, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies Colonial History

Hb
eBook available Published July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons

Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India

Pfeffer, G.

Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2016
Life as a Hunt

Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

Marks, S. A.

The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Forthcoming April 2025
Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland

An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking

Lubit, A. J.

The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies
eBook available Published January 2023
Life with Durham Cathedral

A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building

Calvert, A. J.

An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published April 2021
Liminal Moves

Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times

Cangià, F.

Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’, a condition of suspension and ambivalence between places, meanings and times.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2024
Limits of Life

Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience

Mogseth, M. E. & Nilsen, F. H. (eds)

Through a multidisciplinary approach, Limits of Life explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life and death are reconstituted through engagements with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published August 2006
The Limits of Meaning

Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity

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

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2011
Liquid Bread

Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)

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Paperback available
eBook available Published September 2015
The Living Ancestors

Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco

Jokic, Z.

This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the “part is equal to the whole.” This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Paperback available
eBook available Published August 2017
Living Before Dying

Imagining and Remembering Home

Davies, J.

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.

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

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Published April 2015
Living Kinship in the Pacific

Toren, C. & Pauwels, S. (eds)

Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living dimension of contemporary human lives. The ethnographic case studies add to the understanding of kinship as — according to Unaisi Nabobo-Baba — “knowledge that counts.”

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published October 2022
Living on a Time Bomb

Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

Schöneich, S.

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2016
Living on Thin Ice

The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska

Dinero, S. C.

Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies

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Paperback available
eBook available Published July 2018
Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 2006
Local Science Vs Global Science

Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published August 2011
Localizing the Internet

An Anthropological Account

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published September 2005
The Logic of Environmentalism

Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published February 2023
The Long Shore

Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Meniketti, M. (ed)

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

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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

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Published December 2010
Lost to the State

Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East

Khlinovskaya Rockhill, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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 August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries

Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland

Rollins, J.

Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.

Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2016
Made In Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor

Chakravarti, L. Z.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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eBook available Published January 2023
A Magpie’s Tale

Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia

Portisch, A. O.

Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies

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eBook available Published October 2015
Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project

Purdeková, A.

Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. The book investigates this project of civic education, the explosion of neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the uses of camps and retreats that come together to shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen.

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

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Published January 2015
Making a Difference?

Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China

Price, S. & Robinson, K. (eds)

This collection of essays locates recent Chinese experience with development in a historical and comparative perspective. Contributors − social scientists employed by international development banks, national government agencies, and sub-contracting groups – use real-life experience to examine development policies from a practitioner’s perspective.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published May 2022
Making Better Lives

Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris

Lenhard, J.

In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies

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eBook available Published June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

Pype, K.

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

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eBook available Published January 2020
Management and Morality

An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars

Henningsen, E.

Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena of meaning that should be analysed as a ‘cultural space’.

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

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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

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eBook available Published July 2017
Managing Ambiguity

How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brković, Č.

Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present

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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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Forthcoming February 2025
Market and Monastery

Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora

Ratanapruck, P.

In this enlightening ethnography of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck highlights the way social institutions have boosted Manangi trade opportunities. Examining how capital production and accumulation interacts with the Manangi’s pursuit of social and spiritual aspirations, Market and Monastery illuminates an intriguing form of capitalism.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published June 2019
Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

Endres, K. W.

Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2019
Marketing Hope

Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia

Schiffauer, L.

Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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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 July 2015
Masks and Staffs

Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields

Pelican, Michaela

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Published September 1998
Mastering Soldiers

Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit

Ben-Ari, E.

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

Hb
Paperback available
Published September 2012
A Matter of Belief

Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India

Joshi, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Forthcoming January 2025
Matter Out of Place

Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality

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

This collection draws on classic anthropological ideas of pollution to explore bodies, dirt, and place, moral inversion and reinforcement, and disgust and taboo. The book is an invitation to consider the continued relevance of Douglas’ conceptualisation of pollution and dirt as ‘matter out of place’ in relation to contemporary circumstances.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
eBook available Published May 2021
Mattering the Invisible

Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)

Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies

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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

Hb
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Published July 2009
Meaningful Inconsistencies

Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Doerr, N. M.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
eBook available Published May 2006
Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

Postill, J.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2020
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities

Non-media-centric Perspectives

Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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eBook available Published January 2022
Mediated Lives

Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan

Twigt, M.

Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.

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

Hb
eBook available Published September 2018
Medicinal Rule

A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

Stroeken, K.

Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

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eBook available Published January 2024
Melanesian Mainstream

Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu

Ellerich, S. T.

Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.

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

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eBook available Published July 2008
Melanesian Odysseys

Negotiating the Self, Narrative, and Modernity

Josephides, L.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2002
Memoirs of a Mbororo

The Life of Ndudi Umaru: Fulani Nomad of Cameroon

Bocquene, H.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Memory Studies Literary Studies

Hb
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)

Hb
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eBook available Published February 2018
Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)

Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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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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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 January 2022
Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space

Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)

Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published October 2017
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters

Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations

Mageo, J. & Hermann, E. (eds)

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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The Mirage of China

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

Liu, X.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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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 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 2024
Mobile Pastoralist Households

Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives

Houle, J.-L. (ed)

Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.

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

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eBook available Published July 2019
Mobile Urbanity

Somali Presence in Urban East Africa

Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)

Demystifying Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, this volume shows its historical depth, and explores the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility.

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

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eBook available Published April 2009
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia

Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives

Alexiades, M. N. (ed)

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

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Published October 2012
Modalities of Change

The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia

Wilkerson, J. & Parkin, R. (eds)

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published March 2023
Modeling the Past

Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks

Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.

Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published July 2007
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

Ellen, R. (ed)

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

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eBook available Published August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men

Schubert, V.

Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available Published July 2018
Momentous Mobilities

Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel

Salazar, N. B.

Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

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Monetising the Dividual Self

The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia

Hopkins, J.

Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies

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eBook available Published March 2018
Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design

Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

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

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eBook available Published June 2019
Money Games

Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Pickles, A. J.

Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.

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

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eBook available Published June 2017
Money in a Human Economy

Hart, K. (eds)

Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published October 2017
Moral Engines

Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life

Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)

What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published June 2021
The Moral Work of Anthropology

Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work

Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

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Published June 2014
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa

Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland

Clough, P.

Based on fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles in Nigeria - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998) - this book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2001
Morals of Legitimacy

Between Agency and the System

Pardo, I. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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eBook available Published June 2016
Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

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Published September 2016
Moving Places

Relations, Return and Belonging

Gregorič Bon, N. & Repič, J. (eds)

Centering on “moving places” – places with locations that are not fixed, but relative – this book draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making.

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

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eBook available Published May 2012
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

Svašek, M. (ed)

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

Hb
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Published March 2008
Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Crossing the Boundaries Within

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2015
Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)

Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities

Casciarri, B., Assal, M.A.M. & Ireton, F. (eds)

Based on original fieldwork collected in Sudan from 2006 to 2011, contributors’ look at “access to resources” from various disciplinary approaches — socio-anthropology, geography, politics, history, linguistic. The book analyzes major transformations, from the 1980s to South Sudan’s independence in 2011, which affected the country in the framework of “globalization.”

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies

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Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia

Zigon, J. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Hb
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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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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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Published December 2005
Music and Manipulation

On the Social Uses and Social Control of Music

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

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

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2019
Muted Memories

Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade

Lindström, J.

This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Development Studies

Hb
eBook available Published June 2017
The Myth of Self-Reliance

Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp

Omata, N.

The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas

Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals

Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.

There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)

Hb
Published September 1996
Mythology, Spirituality, and History

Gray, A.

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

Hb
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Published November 2006
Names and Nunavut

Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland

Alia, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published September 2012
Narrating the Future in Siberia

Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny

Ulturgasheva, O.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
Published April 2014
Narrating Victimhood

Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia

Schäuble, M.

Based on fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Narrating Victimhood examines the continuing contestations over truth, history & memory that have helped shape this region.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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

Hb
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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)

Hb
Published May 2006
Navigating Terrains of War

Youth and Soldiering in Guinea-Bissau

Vigh, H.

Subject: Anthropology (General)

Hb
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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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Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life

Urciuoli, B.

Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.

Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
eBook available Published March 2022
A New African Elite

Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation

Pellow, D.

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies

Hb
Published January 2001
The New Age in Glastonbury

The Construction of Religious Movements

Prince, R. & Riches, D.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Sociology

Hb
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Published July 2024
New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Heywood, P. (ed)

This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
eBook available Published January 2010
The New Media Nation

Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication

Alia, V

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published August 2022
New Perspectives on Moral Change

Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds

Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)

The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Published October 2007
New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers

Challenges Ahead

Kneebone, S. & Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)

hb
eBook available Published May 2010
News as Culture

Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions

Rao, U.

Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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eBook available Published June 2021
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa

Transdisciplinary Perspectives

Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans.

Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Hb
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)

Hb
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eBook available Published November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America

Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs

Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)

Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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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

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Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions

Anderson, D. G. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)

24 Bars to Kill

Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins

Armstrong, A. B.

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

Abortion in Asia

Local Dilemmas, Global Politics

Whittaker, A. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology

About the Hearth

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

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies

Above the Death Pits, Beneath the Flag

Youth Voyages to Poland and the Performance of Israeli National Identity

Feldman, J.

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

Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

Bouquet, M. (ed)

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

An Academic Skating on Thin Ice

Worsley, P.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

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

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

Affective States

Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology

African Crossroads

Intersections between History and Anthropology in Cameroon

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History

Afropolitan Horizons

Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

Hannerz, U.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion

After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Straube, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology

After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

After the Cult

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

Jebens, H.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

Feuchtwang, S.

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

After the Pink Tide

Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

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

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Against Better Judgment

Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives

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

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology

Against Exoticism

Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology

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