Social & cultural anthropology books

This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical...  Read More >>

This book investigates the activities undertaken by the variety of actors that contribute to accomplishing cultural...  Read More >>

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial...  Read More >>

This book sheds light on the status of tribal communities in Central India with respect to livelihoods, agriculture,...  Read More >>

This book draws together debates from two burgeoning fields, liminality and informality studies, to analyze how...  Read More >>

This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap...  Read More >>

Drawing on Norbert Elias’ process sociology, this book proposes an extension of the thought of Pierre Bourdieu,...  Read More >>

This book examines the performance of Bauls ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing...  Read More >>

This book explores the discourses, attitudes, and behaviours of professional politicians and ordinary citizens alike...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the relationship between trust and social capital in contemporary Chinese society. It attempts...  Read More >>

This book examines official understandings of Chinese identity in Mainland China and Hong Kong, exploring how the...  Read More >>

Drawing on research from Ghana, this book examines the experiences of women liberated from indigenous ritual servitude...  Read More >>

This book presents the findings of a ten-year longitudinal study on the experience of Chinese immigrants from Wenzhou...  Read More >>

The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary...  Read More >>

This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the United States during...  Read More >>

This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous...  Read More >>

This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem...  Read More >>

This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions...  Read More >>

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive and multifaceted analysis of the Sámi society and its histories and people, offering...  Read More >>

This book explores the recent landscape of Korean popular culture, including celebrity diplomacy, political activism,...  Read More >>

Interweaving ethnography and autoethnography, this book documents the emergence of doulas as care professionals...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology defines the widening and flourishing area of media anthropology, and...  Read More >>

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests...  Read More >>

This book provides a theoretically and empirically grounded examination of the struggle for maternity care in contemporary...  Read More >>