Social and cultural anthropology Books

The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "Englishness" within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization. However, discussions of...

On the public roads boy racers are a foreboding presence, viewed with suspicion and derision by the 'respectable' motorist. The problem of the young (male) driver is one which has plagued authorities and governments due to youths' acclaimed propensity to...

Concerned with contemporary notions of personhood and the relationship between persons and places, this book, presents a detailed insight into the Vanua Lavan's engagement with modernity, and examines how they relate to the past, make sense of the...

When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks...

In recent years, crucial questions have been raised about anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. These interventions have...

In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of...

This book is an exploration of architectural and urban heritage through interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches assessing the impact of historical, social, economic and political constraints on the development of heritage and its sustainability...

How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future?In From Handwriting to Footprinting, Anne Baillot seeks to answer this question by offering a detailed analysis of the methods that enable access to...

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization...

Mythologies and narratives of victimization pervade contemporary Croatia, set against the backdrop of militarized notions of masculinity and the political mobilization of religion and nationhood. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in rural...

Throughout its history the concept of "Uzbekness," or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network. Accession is...

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as...

Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The...

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists...

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates...

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes...

"The moral and intellectual wealth of a nation largely consists in the multifarious variety of the gifts of the men who compose it . . ."-Sir Francis Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its DevelopmentInquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development...

Gracefully pairing the tribal puan with western wear, the Sunday tradition thrives in Mizoram even as it is being de-emphasised in more cosmopolitan cultures. Mizoram lies at the southernmost tip of Northeast India—the second least populous Indian...

Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in...

In the aftermath of September 11, Those Houses on the Ridge is an intelligently spun tale written in the name of the children who die as suicide bombers. When Margaret, an anthropologist from London, embarks on an excursion to study the inhabitants of a...

In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and 1950...

Primitive Weapons Miscellany collects seven early papers on primitive weapons like boomerangs, harpoons, slings, and blowguns, taken primarily from anthropological journals. These papers show examples of the weapons, and describe their use in hunting...

W. E. B. Du Bois was editor and principal author of The Negro Church, first published in 1903. A groundbreaking study, this volume is the first in-depth treatment of African-American religious life. It is the first sociological book on religion in the...

In this unique volume of essays, three Italian-Canadian-American scholars of the post-WWII diaspora, who among them span a wide expanse of geographic and cultural ground, reflect on the meaning of triangulated identities. What are the processes of...

Who are tribal peoples?How do they live?Why do governments hate them?Why is their disappearance far from inevitable?Endorsed by tribal people and anthropologists the world over, this illuminating book answers all these questions and more. Indigenous and...

Lafacadio Hearn left Cincinnati for New Orleans in 1877, where he remained for almost a decade. Whilst there he penned Gombo Zhebes, which is a collection of 352 Creole proverbs selected from 6 different dialects. Included are selections from the Creole...

Explores the cultural dynamics of this ancient form of Sanskrit theater.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Explores how religious travel in India is transforming religious identities and self-constructions.

A History of the Pequot War, also known as A Relation of the War between the Powerful Nation of Pequot Indians, is a book written by Lion Gardiner in 1860. The book is a comprehensive account of the Pequot War, which took place in the mid-17th century in...

""A History of Hindu Civilization During British Rule V2"" is a comprehensive book written by Pramatha Nath Bose in 1894. The book provides a detailed account of the socio-religious, social, and industrial conditions of the Hindu civilization during the...

""A History of Slavery in Cuba: 1511-1868"" is a book written by Hubert Hillary Suffern Aimes and published in 1907. The book provides a comprehensive account of the history of slavery in Cuba from its inception in 1511 until its abolition in 1868. It...

""A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen"" is a six-volume book series written by George Godfrey Cunningham and published in 1853. This particular volume, Volume 6, focuses on the lives of various Englishmen throughout history and their impact...

This book presents the voices of academic scholars and scientists with those of grassroots activists, native healers and community herbalists & brujas, in addressing issues of cultural & indigenous identity, agroecology, sustainability and...

Exploring the interactions of the Buddhist world with the dominant cultures of Iran in pre- and post-Islamic times, Vaziri demonstrates that the traces and cross-influences of Buddhism have brought the material and spiritual culture of Iran to its...

What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through...

""Iets Over Brandstichting"" is een boek geschreven door Joannes Henricus Muller en gepubliceerd in 1882. Het boek behandelt het onderwerp brandstichting en de verschillende aspecten die hierbij komen kijken, zoals de oorzaken, gevolgen en preventie van...

""I nostri nonni: Pagine della vita triestina dal 1800 al 1830"" ����� un libro scritto da Giuseppe Caprin nel 1888. Il libro racconta la vita quotidiana dei triestini nel periodo compreso tra il 1800 e il 1830, attraverso le storie dei loro nonni...

""I cittadini lavoratori dell'Attica: nei secoli V e IV a. C."" ����� un libro scritto da Angelo Mauri nel 1895. Si tratta di un'opera che si concentra sulla storia dell'Attica, una regione della Grecia antica, durante i secoli V e IV a.C., e in...

Het boek ""Het Kongo-Vraagstuk En Het Christendom In Centraal-Afrika (1885)"" geschreven door G. H. Lamers, gaat over de geschiedenis van de kolonisatie van Congo en de invloed van het christendom in Centraal-Afrika. Het boek bespreekt de politieke en...

""I Costumi De' Germani E La Vita Di Agricola"" ����� un'opera storica scritta da Cornelio Tacito e pubblicata nel 98 d.C. Questo libro ����� diviso in due parti: la prima descrive i costumi e le tradizioni dei popoli germanici, mentre la seconda �����...

Grandeur et D�����cadence d'une Soci�����t����� Financi�����re (1884) est un roman �����crit par Un Gogo. Ce livre raconte l'histoire d'une soci�����t����� financi�����re qui conna�����t une ascension fulgurante, mais qui finit par s'effondrer ������...

Grande-Kabylie: Les Beni Yenni (1887) est un livre de Francis Drouet qui d�����crit la r�����gion de Grande-Kabylie en Alg�����rie, en mettant l'accent sur la tribu des Beni Yenni. Le livre explore l'histoire, la culture et les traditions des Beni Yenni,...

""Grammaire De La Langue Des Bena Lulua"" est un livre publi����� en 1897 par l'auteur Auguste Declercq. Il s'agit d'une grammaire de la langue Bena Lulua, une langue bantoue parl�����e en R�����publique D�����mocratique du Congo. Le livre pr�����sente...

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It will be of interest to scholars working in anthropology, sociology, economics, history, semiotics, comparative religions, and...