Social & cultural anthropology books

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular...  Read More >>

Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit...  Read More >>

""Timeless Taboos: The Evolution of Superstitions Across Cultures"" is an exploration into the fascinating world...  Read More >>

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A sobering look at the seductive power of fascist ideas for the young Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe...  Read More >>

By asking what childhood and ageing research can learn from each other, this edited volume brings both fields into...  Read More >>

In 1904, Edmund J. James inherited the leadership of an educational institution in search of an identity. His sixteen-year...  Read More >>

Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit...  Read More >>

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions....  Read More >>

This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions...  Read More >>

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and...  Read More >>

Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans –...  Read More >>

Explores the complexity of language ideologies, language practices, identity formations, and internal differences...  Read More >>

""The most important economics book of the year―and maybe of the decade."" -Paul Krugman, New York Times, on Capital...  Read More >>

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Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages....  Read More >>

Aging is not only reserved for humans. Similarly, how humans age is often a process in which other-than-humans –...  Read More >>

Explores the complexity of language ideologies, language practices, identity formations, and internal differences...  Read More >>

This book argues that future generations of modernity as a whole will shape participatory modernization whether...  Read More >>

Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic state to describe an entity that acts like a state...  Read More >>

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This book develops a very particular concept of sociality: a holistic way of understanding how human beings have...  Read More >>

How humans became so dependent on things and how this need has grown dangerously out of control.   Over three...  Read More >>