Social & cultural anthropology books

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

Representing the output of the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, this volume brings...  Read More >>

Blending archival work, ethnography, and cultural analysis with memoir, graphic arts, and science fiction, Queer...  Read More >>

Exploring family stories reveals the rich history of a seventh-century Buddhist shrine. As a young girl in Bombay,...  Read More >>

A harrowing history of a grim chapter in politics and science, in which groups of influential thinkers shaped global...  Read More >>

This book argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children’s growth and socialization....  Read More >>

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

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Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into Latin America’s...  Read More >>

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

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Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected...  Read More >>

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

Integrating humanistic interpretation with computational approaches, this book examines the 1958-1960 Taiwan fieldnotes...  Read More >>

Are traditional views of love and commitment truly the only way to find happiness? Monogamy Unmasked: Natural Instinct...  Read More >>

Cultural Perspectives on Digital Media provides a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between digital...  Read More >>

A global study of times and places where people were subject to brutality, displacement, and loss of life, liberty,...  Read More >>

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch pounded the isolated village of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán in mountainous western Guatemala,...  Read More >>

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

The charismatic revival movements of the 1970s in Melanesia were the most significant religious development in the...  Read More >>

Integrating humanistic interpretation with computational approaches, this book examines the 1958-1960 Taiwan fieldnotes...  Read More >>

Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and...  Read More >>