Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from...  Read More >>

This book is the first in-depth study of early Arab immigrants to Britain, and provides a unique insight into their...  Read More >>

This award-winning book touches the heart through its personal material as it engages the mind with its theoretical...  Read More >>

This award-winning book touches the heart through its personal material as it engages the mind with its theoretical...  Read More >>

How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do...  Read More >>

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An informed history of the Irish community in Boston.  Read More >>

This book provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of race and ethnicity in Britain today....  Read More >>

Exploring the history and current use of the label ""hispanic"", this book illustrates the complex meanings that...  Read More >>

This study provides the student with a comprehensive and accessible overview of race and ethnicity in Britain today....  Read More >>

How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do...  Read More >>

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A collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's most important sociological writings from 1898 to 1910.  Read More >>

The Californios were the original Spanish-speaking settlers of Alta California. By the 1870s they had become a conquered...  Read More >>

Developments in a number of European societies have highlighted the volatility of racism and the ease with which...  Read More >>

For the past decade the function of the ethnographer's work has been challenged. Ethnographic texts are now deconstructed...  Read More >>

Covering more than one hundred years of American history, this title examines the ways that continuous immigration...  Read More >>

The media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story. This book...  Read More >>

Shows how the themes of drama, play, trance, music and dance have been found to be fundamental to the practice of...  Read More >>

This text tackles the particular links between the daily materiality of social relationships and mental conventions....  Read More >>

Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group...  Read More >>

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This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting...  Read More >>

This text explores the question of what is meant by ""race"", once it is clear that race is not a tangible reality...  Read More >>