Social & cultural anthropology books

Public welfare measures pay scant attention to the issue of reform and rehabilitation of these sections and, they...  Read More >>

People who are “on the move,” particularly migrants and the displaced, often inhabit places that are considered...  Read More >>

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

Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s...  Read More >>

For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves...  Read More >>

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography...  Read More >>

Looking at the Finnish–Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand...  Read More >>

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An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse....  Read More >>

The rules monks live by, the Vinaya, are a pivotal source of meaning for them and their dealings with society and...  Read More >>

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Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou,...  Read More >>

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion dollar...  Read More >>

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An ethnography of an Argentine mall that sheds light on encounters, struggles for participation, and conflict-laden...  Read More >>

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Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou,...  Read More >>

This book asks us to consider what is absent, rather than what is present, when studying religions. Priya Swamy...  Read More >>

An ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces everyday relations of power and difference...  Read More >>

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A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode...  Read More >>

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