Social and cultural anthropology Books

Whether reviewing a film, critiquing art and music, or discussing the collapse of boundaries between private and public life-whether Ilana defends creative social benefactors such as Bill Gates and Martha Stewart, or off-shore tax havens, or the...

'Just leave the tree-trunk alone, the beetle is crawling out.'This Bawòng proverb means: surrender to the divine course. Man must not start tugging at this tree, the beetle is already busy cleaning it up.In 1967, Tony van Buren went as a...

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand...

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient's recovery...

The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and...

Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of "contextual theologians," exploring how the...

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters...

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance. Its practitioners worship African gods, often calling them by the names of Catholic saints; simultaneously embrace the concepts...

Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China...

This book examines ceramic artifacts from the island of Guadeloupe to reveal information about daily life in the French colonial Caribbean.

"Fox provides important insights that will help historical archaeologists interpret tobacco-related finds and understand the multiple meanings of a commodity that has burned through the social, political, and economic fabric of the modern world...

The Dinka: A Nilotic Lifecycle was first published in 1972, as The Dinka of Sudan, which was published again in 1984 and 1986. On its 50th anniversary year of publication, the book has been reissued; as relevant and vital in the...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory...

Originally published in 1998, Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora examines the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas in the United States. The book focuses on a predominantly Maya town in rural Florida and shows how members of this...

Originally published in 2002 Culture, Ritual and Revolution in Vietnam is a study of the history and consequences of the revolutionary campaign to transform culture and ritual in northern Vietnam. Based upon official documents and several years of field...

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous. This final volume in the five-volume series deals with the two key concepts of...

Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional...

Choreographies of the Living explores the implications of shifting from viewing art as an exclusively human undertaking to recognizing it as an activity that all living creatures enact. Carrie Rohman reveals the aesthetic impulse itself to be profoundly...

Doctors' Commons Unveiled: Its Secrets And Abuses Disclosed is a book written by Cuthbert Conyngham and published in 1854. The book provides a detailed account of the practices and abuses that took place in the Doctors' Commons, a legal institution in...

""Description De L�������Isle Des Hermaphrodites, Nouvellement Decouverte"" est un livre �����crit par Thomas Artus en 1726. Ce livre d�����crit une �����le myst�����rieuse peupl�����e d'hermaphrodites, des ������tres qui ont ������ la fois des organes...

""Dell'Andamento Delle Cose In Italia"" ����� un libro scritto da Luigi Pianciani nel 1860. Questo testo ����� una raccolta di discorsi tenuti dallo stesso autore durante il periodo in cui fu Ministro dell'Interno del Regno d'Italia. Il libro analizza la...

""Dedication Of The Confederate Monument, At Greenwood Cemetery, On Friday, April 10, 1874"" is a historical book written by the Ladies Benevolent Association in 1874. The book details the dedication of the Confederate Monument at Greenwood Cemetery,...

De La Litt�����rature des Turcs V2 (1789) est un livre �����crit par Giambattista Toderini. Ce livre traite de la litt�����rature turque, de ses origines et de son d�����veloppement. L'auteur y explore les diff�����rents genres litt�����raires turcs,...

Description Generale De La Chine: Ou Tableau De L�������Etat Actuel De Cet Empire (1785) is a book written by Jean Baptiste Grosier. The book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of China during the 18th century. It covers a range of topics...

""Description Du Royaume De Siam V1 (1700)"" est un livre �����crit par M. De La Loubere qui donne une description compl�����te du Royaume de Siam, qui est maintenant la Tha�����lande. Le livre est divis����� en deux parties principales. La premi�����re...

""Borough of Brighton: Copies of the Deeds Relating to the Division of the Tenantry Lands in the Parish of Brighthelmston: In the Year 1822"" is a historical document originally published in 1878. The book contains copies of deeds related to the division...

Fashion And Its Votaries V1 is a book written by Mrs. Maberly and originally published in 1848. The book is a comprehensive study of fashion and its impact on society during the 19th century. It explores the history of fashion, the different styles and...

This book explores both scientific and humanistic theoretical traditions in anthropology through the lens of ontology. Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropological theory.

This volume presents an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses their internal social organization consisting of...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a...

Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania's endeavors to become European.The...

Reflecting on some of Brazil's foremost challenges, this book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions.It brings together work by...

Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies, and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book...

The Spanish Language in the United States addresses the rootedness of Spanish in the United States, its racialization, and Spanish speakers' resistance against racialization. This novel approach challenges the "foreigner" status of Spanish and shows that...

This book explores the recent developments in global and Japanese whaling from the viewpoint of the members of the Japanese whaling community, a perspective which is largely neglected and misinterpreted.

Media Cultures in Latin America updates and expands contemporary global understandings of the region's media and cultural research. Drawing on forty years of contributions made by Latin American cultural studies to the global media research, the book...

Developed in response to the theoretically driven mainstream sociology, institutional ethnography starts from people's everyday experiences, and works from there to discover how the social is organized. Starting from experience is a central step in...

In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South...

This book explores how, unlike in the West, the daily religious life of most Chinese people spreads without institutional propagation. Based upon more than a decade of field research in rural China, the book demonstrates the decisive role of rites of...

This book makes evident how love, as an interstitial practice, produces a set of collective practices and how, through a mapping of these practices, it is possible to observe the connection between the politics of sensibilities and social conflict.The...

This book examines the surprisingly large number of films about ethnic minority children in China, considering key questions such as Why are ethnic minority children becoming more intriguing to Chinese filmmakers? What are their roles in the films...

This book presents an innovative approach to public archaeology in a rural community, which has had powerful results in terms of empowering a village community in Crete to become long-term guardians of their cultural heritage. Highlighting the...

Ip uses Hong Kong as a case study in how the production of the desire for "the local" lies at the heart of global cultural economy.Perhaps more so than most places, the construction of a local identity in Hong Kong has come about through a complex...

Digital self-tracking devices and data have become normal elements of everyday life. Imagining Personal Data examines the implications of the rise of body monitoring and digital self-tracking for how we inhabit, experience and imagine our everyday worlds...

Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly...