Social & cultural anthropology books

On many Sundays, Black New Orleanians dance through city streets in Second Lines. These processions invite would-be...  Read More >>

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable...  Read More >>

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For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer...  Read More >>

Humanitarianism is in crisis: refugee numbers increase every year and humanitarian agencies are struggling to meet...  Read More >>

The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than...  Read More >>

The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence...  Read More >>

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the...  Read More >>

Extreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities...  Read More >>

This book delves into the complexities of masculinity, mental health, and cultural identity among young Bangladeshi-Canadian...  Read More >>

Despite being long-term hosts to refugee populations, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia are not yet part of the 1951...  Read More >>

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of...  Read More >>

The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal...  Read More >>

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This rich, experimental ethnography plays within the margins of mythology and ethnographic practice to pursue a...  Read More >>

‘An important book, brimming with insight.’ Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer ‘Material is generous,...  Read More >>

Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer...  Read More >>

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth...  Read More >>

A must read for anyone engaged in postcolonial studies, creativity studies, cultural geography, sociolinguistics,...  Read More >>

Harnessing a myriad of methodologies and research spanning multiple continents, this volume delves into the power...  Read More >>

Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, Heritage in the Body examines the links between health and heritage...  Read More >>

This volume brings together senior and junior scholars from across the globe to revisit the question of myth in...  Read More >>

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Kory? dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world....  Read More >>

This book examines how identities are constructed in digital, multimodal discourse, and how these identities (gender,...  Read More >>

Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, this book takes the provocative...  Read More >>