Social & cultural anthropology books

"""Disonant Records is an intermedia genealogy that considers the social and technical contexts of archival recordings,...  Read More >>

Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule...  Read More >>

Lying in the southeastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim and the Mon region show a rich and complex development as a...  Read More >>

""Hine's brilliant book demands we stare into [the] abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually...  Read More >>

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks...  Read More >>

The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus,...  Read More >>

Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous...  Read More >>

Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous...  Read More >>

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Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous...  Read More >>

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus...  Read More >>

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Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is...  Read More >>

The Time of the Cannibals rethinks conspiracy theory as an analytic category through a case study set in Cyprus,...  Read More >>

Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous...  Read More >>

Fifteen billion years ago, there was nothing, not even light. Now, we live in a universe that plays host to trillions...  Read More >>

Margarete Susman (1872–1966) war Philosophin, Dichterin und Essayistin. Ihre Beiträge zu Fragen des Feminismus,...  Read More >>

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.  Read More >>

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion,...  Read More >>

Multifaceted exploration of the dimensions of education for climate justice.  Read More >>

A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.  Read More >>

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges...  Read More >>

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact...  Read More >>

Walks on the Ground is a record of Ponca Elder Louis V. Headman’s personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning...  Read More >>

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can...  Read More >>