Social & cultural anthropology books

This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal...  Read More >>

This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through...  Read More >>

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Beyond The Mountain: Queer Life in ""Africa’s Gay Capital"" contributes to the body of knowledge on the lived experiences...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the 3.11 disaster in Japan, involving a powerful earthquake and tsunami, from an anthropological...  Read More >>

Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid...  Read More >>

This book looks at various syncretic traditions in India, such as Bhakti, Nath Yogi, Sufi, Imam Shahi, Ismailis,...  Read More >>

Drawing from an interdisciplinary body of research and data, Women of Piracy employs a criminological lens to explore...  Read More >>

Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability...  Read More >>

This book is about a ‘Small Island’, namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a ‘Large...  Read More >>

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Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after...  Read More >>

This book offers a comparative, theory-grounded study of Maghrebi political parties since the Arab uprisings, specifically...  Read More >>

Folklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore,...  Read More >>

Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts...  Read More >>

This volume collates and examines literary and screened representations of what the editors term ‘border masculinities’....  Read More >>

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 >>

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Entre el sol y la nieve: escritos de fin de siglo / Between the Sun and Snow: Writing at the End of the Century...  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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