Social & cultural anthropology books

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

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

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic...  Read More >>

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals...  Read More >>

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""The Mongols: A History"" by Jeremiah Curtin is an in-depth exploration of the Mongol Empire and its impact on...  Read More >>

Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned...  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 >>

By focusing on the shared religious figure of Laldas/Khan, the book uncovers fascinating historical and contemporary...  Read More >>

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

The Gitanos of el Rastro carry an ‘ontology of simultaneity’ as self-employed traders and Pentecostal practitioners...  Read More >>

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1995) 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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Based on interviews in Bosnia and Herzegovina with survivors of the war and war rape, as well as those working with...  Read More >>

Based on ethnographic studies conducted in several African countries, this open access book analyses the phenomenon...  Read More >>

The goal of fostering positive intercultural relations has taken on increased importance in a wide range of societal,...  Read More >>

Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean...  Read More >>

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This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on...  Read More >>

Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned...  Read More >>

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

A profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital...  Read More >>

A new English translation of a forgotten German text that influenced cultural understanding of money in the early...  Read More >>