Physical anthropology & ethnography books

Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great grandfather worked during...  Read More >>

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Challenging the dominant view of Hawai'i as a ""melting pot paradise"" - a place of ethnic tolerance and equality...  Read More >>

An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed...  Read More >>

Examines how to use ethnographic methods to conduct research in language and literacy. This work begins by mapping...  Read More >>

Examines how to use ethnographic methods to conduct research in language and literacy. The authors map some of the...  Read More >>

Contributes toward building a vocabulary through a study of ""local knowledge"" that exposes the relationship between...  Read More >>

Looking at the shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, this title presents relations of influence between...  Read More >>

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Contacts between Indigenous Australians and outsiders Macassans, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Americans and...  Read More >>

Describes the various phases of an ethnographic inquiry, provides numerous examples, and offers suggestions and...  Read More >>

Through the idea of the ""extended field,"" this volume examines issues in fieldwork and ethnography and provides...  Read More >>

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Examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders...  Read More >>

Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United...  Read More >>

This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study...  Read More >>

This study is the result of decades of analysis of the skeletal material from the Early Bronze Age I tombs at the...  Read More >>

Provides a history of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European...  Read More >>

For the past forty years, the Pima Indians living in the Gila River Indian Community have been among the most consistently...  Read More >>

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Awareness of the role that physical difference plays in an individual's ability to negotiate personal and cultural...  Read More >>

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The first edition of this book had a major impact on diaspora studies and was the foundational text in an emerging...  Read More >>