Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Explores fresh modes of racial theorizing that provide a more nuanced framework for understanding the social facts...  Read More >>

An examination of how popular culture is received and produced within the Middle East.  Read More >>

An examination of how popular culture is received and produced within the Middle East.  Read More >>

Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century...  Read More >>

Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century...  Read More >>

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national...  Read More >>

This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals...  Read More >>

This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals...  Read More >>

Deals specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Here, the author...  Read More >>

Deals specifically with relations between Africans and native peoples in colonial Latin America. Here, the author...  Read More >>

In the interest of locating race and ethnicity as sociological and political categories that are inimical to contemporary...  Read More >>

This book deals with issues of Chinese national and cultural identity represented in current Chinese ideology, worldview...  Read More >>

Providing students with a pedagogical program designed to facilitate comprehension, this book gives a balanced,...  Read More >>

With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference...  Read More >>

Whether it is the vitality of African popular culture, religious ideas, or artistic forms of expressions, invoking...  Read More >>

This study, based on many years of field research, attempts to reveal the complex socio-cultural, economic, and...  Read More >>

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Analyzes the experience of gentrification for residents of two predominantly black New York City neighbourhoods....  Read More >>

Modern society depends critically on computers that control and manage the systems on which we depend in many aspects...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies...  Read More >>

Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review ever assembled on the topic. It examines the function, development...  Read More >>

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This book illustrates how ethnic identity is chosen - through the adoption of ethnic labels, the invention of """"traditions,""""...  Read More >>

Haiming Liu presents a transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s....  Read More >>