Social & cultural anthropology books

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 >>

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine...  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 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 collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples, places and practices in the Circumpolar North from...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to debates underpinning the uses of visual technology in educational ethnography, this book...  Read More >>

This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative...  Read More >>

This book provides a vivid account of the political valence of weaving queer into native positionality and the struggle...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau...  Read More >>

Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling There is a persistent assumption...  Read More >>