Social and cultural anthropology Books

This book describes various new computer based approaches which can be exploited for the (digital) reconstruction, recognition, restoration, presentation and classification of digital heritage. They are based on applications of virtual reality, augmented...

This book reports on the latest advances in using BIM modelling to achieve the semantic enrichment of objects, allowing them to be used both as multidimensional databases - as comprehensive sources of information for finalizing various types of...

This book elucidates and maps the societal impact of experience and heritage, participation, and entrepreneurship in the cultural sector. The contributions address and explore the relevance of culture, cultural entities, and heritage as collective...

Depuis son accession à l'indépendance jusqu'à nos jours, la Côte d'Ivoire a été confrontée à diverses crises sociopolituques, qui ont déstabilisé non seulement le processus de paix, mais surtout la cohésion sociale, dont les séquelles sont toujours...

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Creative responses to Covid 19 - no longer consumed by notions of divine retribution as in past plagues - constituted a broad cultural flowering, often within the digital world. This volume combines anthropology's understanding of ritual and society with...

This edited volume brings together several scholars who produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities between the 1970s and 2000s and asks them to revisit, review, and reassess their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology,...

Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the...

The book explores the multi-faceted nature of the important phenomenon of Irish tourism, drawing on current work in sociology, cultural studies, ethnography, and language studies. It will provide invaluable insights into historical and contemporary...

This book is about linguistic diversity and language revitalisation in Galicia, an autochthonous region of Spain. Taking historical and linguistic perspectives, it examines societal language use and institutional support to determine the role of the...

This book examines citizenship education from the perspective of interculturality in order to extend its meaning and significance within and beyond the nation state, and in education in the nation state. There are chapters which deal with theory and...

This is a chronological account of the cultural history of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 2022, examining Cuban revolutionary culture and the control of it by the state. It is a cultural history guidebook about one of the most significant historical...

Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future...

Fabricating Authenticity expands on revised Culture on the Edge blog posts where group members focus on claims of authenticity and how they are employed. Authenticity is examined as a socially contested and constructed label used to manage and codify a...

Robert Dean Frisbie left America for the South Pacific in 1920 and four years later set up a trading station on Danger Island, now called Pukapuka, a lonely paradise four hundred miles northeast of Samoa. This autobiographical story relates how the...

Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer...

This volume brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages, providing insights into the sixteenth-century indigenous communities of North America and...

Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000-1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that...

Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that...

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General NonfictionScholarly and popular attention tends to focus heavily on Cuba's recent history: its notoriety as the world's largest exporter of sugar and the Western hemisphere's first socialist nation. Key to...

"Makes the case that the everyday should and does matter in archaeology. The content is fresh, the approaches are varied, and the case is convincing."-Adam King, editor of Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State...

"Provides new insights into how enslaved and freed Africans in the New World navigated racialized landscapes while honoring the memories of their dead."--Laurie A. Wilkie, coauthor of Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a...

"A significant empirical contribution to the transdisciplinary study of eighteenthcenturyAtlantic history and the colonial history of the Christian Church."--Dan Hicks, author of The Garden of the World: An Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in...

"Fitts combines archaeology and ethnohistory to explore Catawba strategies for retaining sovereignty and power in the colonial era. A model of interdisciplinary methodology, this book offers new insights into coalescence, colonialism, and Indigenous...

Is the concept of calling universal? God calls all people, yes-but calling is not a monolithic concept. This path-breaking book helps Christians in the United States see how social location shapes assumptions and experiences with vocation, critically...

This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through...

Why did the third World Trade Center building (WTC7) collapse on September 11th , even though it was not struck by any aircraft?Why did Princess Diana's "drunk" driver look sober as he climbed into the car minutes before their deadly accident? Could a...

The traditional South Indian village pictures the entire universe as an entity in which all living things and human beings play a necessary and effective role

As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience, and make sense of a broad range of everyday practices...

This book analyses Johannesburg's Kwa Mai Mai market, which has experienced numerous national transformations. It explores how the Kwa Mai Mai community reversed roles and took control of the means of production from the dominant class through their...

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual well-being and human survival.

Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into Latin America's largest social movement as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of 'city craft'. Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces.

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.

By combining legal and genealogical methodologies, this book details patriarchy's development in the West, enabling the reader to understand what it is. By reconstructing how patriarchy has been theorized in several disciplines and historical times, the...

Shim and Baek examine the evolving existential meanings of gift-making by interviewing donors of convalescent blood plasma during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Onda compares Japan's traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation's societal fabric, with other countries across Asia including Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and in the Pacific...

This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic times through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries and will be of interest to scholars in...

Ethnomusicology in East Africa is a first in this part of the world. It brings together thinkers and artists from Uganda, East Africa and further afield to discuss an area of vital importance to Africans as a people. The book presents selected papers...

This book focuses on the archaeological and historical research on the seaport heritage of galleon navigation in Asia-Pacific region. It reconstructs the Manila Galleons' era of early maritime globalization, established and operated by Spanish navigators...