Social & cultural anthropology books

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This book is the first comprehensive examination of the history and evolution of Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann (All-Ireland...  Read More >>

Addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals a major pathway for...  Read More >>

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Future Memory Practices addresses a crucial challenge in pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory...  Read More >>

‘A modern-day bard.’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ‘Shaw has so much wisdom and knowledge...  Read More >>

Bringing together emerging ethnographies on kinship in South Asia, this book explores the idea of kinship as ‘fiction’...  Read More >>

Im Zuge eines anscheinend ununterbrochenen und unaufhaltsamen technischen Fortschritts scheint die Entwicklung einer...  Read More >>

Rivke Jaffe explains how despite Jamaica's ""dons"" are associated with crime and violence, they have become figures...  Read More >>

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

Born and raised in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey, Dr. Regal has weathered tempests, had hairbreadth...  Read More >>

Rivke Jaffe explains how despite Jamaica's ""dons"" are associated with crime and violence, they have become figures...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together...  Read More >>

Famines and other serious food shortages have been one of the scourges faced by humanity for millennia. Plants for...  Read More >>

The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making...  Read More >>

Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Culture and Psychology offers an innovative introduction to culture and psychology, taking a...  Read More >>

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Black women in the department of ChocÓ, Colombia, respond to the violence endemic to their region with activism...  Read More >>

In this revolt, religious faith worked as a source of liberation rather than a source of bondage. Recollecting and...  Read More >>