Physical anthropology & ethnography books

This study describes how and why institutional racism arose in Hawai'i, what kept it going and how it can be dismantled....  Read More >>

""Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed...  Read More >>

This analysis of the causes of racial and ethnic conflict in American cities between 1877-1914 presents evidence...  Read More >>

This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and...  Read More >>

Presents the reality of Asian successes and problems and challenges faced by immigrants in the USA. Case studies...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume address urban social theory, contemporary cultural change and analysis of racial...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume address urban social theory, contemporary cultural change and analysis of racial...  Read More >>

""Anthropologists and students of anthropology may read this book because it is a superior ethnography, detailed...  Read More >>

Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become...  Read More >>

Celebrating the publication of our fiftieth volume.  Read More >>

The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.  Read More >>

Presents a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces...  Read More >>

Describes the daily lives, occupations and history of the Subei people, immigrants from the Jiangsu Province, who...  Read More >>

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Drawing from the last generation of Hidatsas who lived in the historic village of Like-a-Fishhook, this book presents...  Read More >>

He wrote detailed scholarly investigations, Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction among them, as well as...  Read More >>

Until the middle of this century, the Western world knew little about the peoples of the Central Highlands of what...  Read More >>

In a convenient alphabetical format, this book describes the histories and cultures of the Pacific Northwest tribes,...  Read More >>

This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and...  Read More >>

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This text explores a range of topics, including underground literature, religious revival, and the rise of a national...  Read More >>

In Body, Movement, and Culture, Sally Ann Ness provides an original interpretive account of three forms of sinulog...  Read More >>

This is a history of the Irish-American experience, which focuses on religion, politics and Irish nationalism.  Read More >>