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Forthcoming Pb 2025 Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development
Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)
The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Forthcoming February 2025
Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
Ohnuki-Tierney, E.
“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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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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Forthcoming January 2026
Visions of Marriage
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Chiu, H.-C.
Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Forthcoming January 2026
From Village Commons to Public Goods
Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
Trémon, A.-C.
Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published October 2024
The Return of Polyandry
Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet
Fjeld, H. E.
This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2024
Making Things Happen
Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan
Murphy Thomas, J.
Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2023
Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2024
Traumatic Pasts in Asia
History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present
Micale, M. S. & Pols, H. (eds)
Traumatic Pasts in Asia extends Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, explores how these new terrains of investigation inform and enrich earlier understandings.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies Medical Anthropology
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Published November 2023
Homo Itinerans
Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Monsutti, A.
This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2024
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Values, Family, and Identity
Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)
Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published January 2023
Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2023
Heritage Movements in Asia
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)
This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2022
World Heritage Craze in China
Universal Discourse, National Culture, and Local Memory
Yan, H.
There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism
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Published August 2022
Bishkek Boys
Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital
Schröder, P.
In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity, author Philipp Schröder explores integration and urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. Bishkek Boys offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and (state) ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among the boys who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Urban Studies
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Published September 2019
Grace after Genocide
Cambodians in the United States
Mortland, C. A.
Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property
Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.
Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2020
The Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Taee, J.
In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 2016
Honour and Violence
Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan
Shah, N.
This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2018
'City of the Future'
Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
Laszczkowski, M.
The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography
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Published October 2021
Staying at Home
Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans
Sanders, R.
This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Rita Sanders shows that social capital, including the power to influence identities, plays a key role in Kazakhstani German attitudes
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2016
Domesticating Youth
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
Roche, S.
“This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published April 2018
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
Knörr, J.
Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published April 2016
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky
Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
LaDousa, C.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2013
Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
Bar-Yosef, O. & Calla, F. R.
This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.
Subject: Archaeology
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Published October 2015
Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
Haines, D. W., Yamanaka, K. & Yamashita, S. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2013
Tourism, Magic and Modernity
Cultivating the Human Garden
Picard, D.
“...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.” · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2023
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Hertzog, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2014
The Hadrami Diaspora
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Manger, L.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2012
Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Whittaker, A. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2013
News as Culture
Journalistic Practices and the Remaking of Indian Leadership Traditions
Rao, U.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2008
Empathy and Healing
Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
Skultans, V.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published November 2011
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Pinto, S.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2008
Learning Religion
Anthropological Approaches
Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology
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Published February 2007
Identifying with Freedom
Indonesia after Suharto
Day, T (ed)
Subject: Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2009
Local Science Vs Global Science
Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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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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Published March 2009
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition
Parkin, R.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology
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Published October 2004
Tibetans in Nepal
The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile
Frechette, A.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published October 2002
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development
Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2003
Bali and Beyond
Case Studies in the Anthropology of Tourism
Yamashita, S.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2001
Modern Babylon?
Prostituting Children in Thailand
Montgomery, H.
Subject: Medical Anthropology
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Published August 2001
Demography and National Security
Weiner, M. & Stanton Russell, S. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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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 July 2000
The Silk Roads
Highways of Culture and Commerce
Elisseeff, V.
Subject: History (General)
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Published October 1999
Taboo, Truth and Religion
Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 1999
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization
Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology
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Published January 2001
Autonomy
Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists
Rao, A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published November 1996
The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia
Formoso, B. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 1994
Cars
Analysis, History, Cases
Williams, K., Haslam, C., Johal, S. & Williams, J.
Subject: History (General)
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