Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Explores the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. This book shows how groups negotiate, circumvent,...  Read More >>

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A look at the histories and experiences of French immigrants in the USA. Jacqueline Lindenfeld, a French-born American...  Read More >>

Using the relationship between China and Southeast Asia's ethnic Chinese as a case study, this text focuses upon...  Read More >>

An examination of anthropological practice and product. It identifies three domains in which ethnographic artefacts...  Read More >>

Anthropologist and social critic Ghassan Hage explores one of the most complex and troubling of modern phenomena:...  Read More >>

This volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater.  Read More >>

An ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani community in Oxford from World War II to the present...  Read More >>

This book discusses issues facing Roma or (gypsies) in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, particularly...  Read More >>

First published in 1948, this is an investigation of how racism began and why it remains a persistent problem in...  Read More >>

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This work has been assembled in honour of the 70th birthday of the doyen of committed Romani linguistics in Britain,...  Read More >>

The voice of Heeni, a cousin to the Maori Queen, chronicles the history of the Maori of New Zealand and the adaptations...  Read More >>

The book is a festschrift, dedicated to Hans Dieter Kubitscheck, the former head of the Department of Southeast...  Read More >>

The contributors explore the educational and economic mobility of immigrant groups in Europe and America.  Read More >>

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Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this book examines...  Read More >>

An analysis of the history of science, US popular culture, sensationalized court cases, forensic technology and...  Read More >>

This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single...  Read More >>

In this biography, Schneebaum seeks to intertwine the varied strands of his experience, pondering his life as a...  Read More >>

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For a few brief months during the presidential campaign of 1960, Mexican Americans caught a glimpse of their own...  Read More >>

A comparative study of settler-native conflicts, this text considers the role of political parties, settler mythology,...  Read More >>

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