Social & cultural anthropology books

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

Tourism Geopolitics offers a unique and timely intervention into the growing significance of tourism in geopolitical...  Read More >>

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The story of the people of Buland Masjid, a community of migrants in Delhi. In Dreaming a Paradise, Chitvan Gill...  Read More >>

This book provides an inventory of modes of inquiry for ethnographic research and presents fieldwork as an act of...  Read More >>

Through the translated stories of twenty Tibetan women of various backgrounds, ages and occupations who were alive...  Read More >>

This book presents the Quality of Life using a contemporary and interdisciplinary approach. Quality of LIfe is not...  Read More >>

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A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself...  Read More >>

This book delves into the intricate landscape of respiratory diseases among older people, shedding light on their...  Read More >>

Designing homeliness: everyday practices of care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home.  Read More >>

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This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's...  Read More >>

Egypt's January 2011 uprising spurred millions to action with a cacophony of demands—including the call to address...  Read More >>

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A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself...  Read More >>

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This book advances critical discussions about what coloniality, decoloniality and decolonization mean and imply...  Read More >>

Race in Sweden is an introduction to, and a critical investigation of, the Swedish relationship to the concept of...  Read More >>

Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material...  Read More >>

This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional...  Read More >>

This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent...  Read More >>

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross...  Read More >>

Барбара Купер исследует репродуктивные практики в регионе с самым высоким в мире уровнем рождаемости и пугающе высоким...  Read More >>