Social & cultural anthropology books

Paris Review columnist Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories...  Read More >>

From two New York Times bestelling authors, a disarmingly honest and propulsive investigation that will do for antisemitism...  Read More >>

A collection of essays challenging White Americans to work against racism.    This collection of thirty-two essays...  Read More >>

A study of how the city of Port Said was created, and its spaces mutually produced and transformed through the practices...  Read More >>

Public and government attitudes to the role of the public sector in Egyptian cinema In 1957 the public sector in...  Read More >>

"An ethnographic study of the contemporary meanings, forms, and purposes of friendship among young Egyptians There...  Read More >>

Challenges, opportunities, and methodological issues in the creation of oral history archives in the Arab world...  Read More >>

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Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how...  Read More >>

Presents the story of Warri and Yatungka, the last of the Mandjildjara people to remain in the Gibson Desert, the...  Read More >>

A bracing look at the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children.  Read More >>

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how...  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 volume expands conversations about participatory, community-engaged, and action-oriented research that inspires...  Read More >>

A bracing look at the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children.  Read More >>

This volume presents new research in social ontology by focusing on questions related to the characteristics, categories,...  Read More >>

In Art Effects Brazilian anthropologist Carlos Fausto explores the agency of Indigenous artifacts and images in...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, this book places Cypriot migration to Britain within the context of New Commonwealth...  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive examination of how leadership and collaboration are discursively performed in...  Read More >>

Drawing on extensive research from a 14-month ethnographic study, this book delves into the intricate lives of married...  Read More >>

The book will appeal to academics in the diverse fields of sociology of education, critical race theory, critical...  Read More >>

This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built...  Read More >>

A timely feminist ethnography set in a Pentecostal church community in Oaxaca de Juarez. Based on extensive fieldwork,...  Read More >>

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role...  Read More >>

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