Social & cultural anthropology books

Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines...  Read More >>

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Kory? dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world....  Read More >>

This rich, experimental ethnography plays within the margins of mythology and ethnographic practice to pursue a...  Read More >>

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth...  Read More >>

Harnessing a myriad of methodologies and research spanning multiple continents, this volume delves into the power...  Read More >>

Through storytelling, ethnography, and interviews, Heritage in the Body examines the links between health and heritage...  Read More >>

Handwerkliche Praktiken wie die Herstellung eines Kamelsattels, das Nahen einer ledernen Tasche und das Schmieden...  Read More >>

Examining the intersections of queer theory and the rise of China to reveal how queerness is “produced”  Read More >>

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This book sets out to try to understand why segregated schooling still exists, especially in northern Italy in South...  Read More >>

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth...  Read More >>

Although Indigenous peoples are often perceived as standing outside political modernity, this book takes the provocative...  Read More >>

“My father was born into war,” begins this remarkable saga in Alisse Waterston’s intimate ethnography, a story that...  Read More >>

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

This book elucidates the citizenship experiences of marginalized groups in urban Australia under neoliberal governance,...  Read More >>

""This book is the story of how over three decades, one anthropologist came to understand failure-both his own and...  Read More >>

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""This book is the story of how over three decades, one anthropologist came to understand failure-both his own and...  Read More >>

In this book, we try to understand how the modernity of societies had become the main source that gave birth to...  Read More >>

Children as Social Butterflies offers an analysis of how children negotiate social belonging. Ursina Jaeger followed...  Read More >>

Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the...  Read More >>

An exploration of social anthropology's failure to explain sociocultural variability.  Read More >>

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.  Read More >>

This book critiques how wolves and other animals thought unlikeable are negatively portrayed and become targets...  Read More >>

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