Social and cultural anthropology

A New York Times Notable Book: A renowned scholar explores the way we eat across cultures and throughout history.

Nutrition and diet play a crucial role in sustaining good health throughout human lives.

Malcolm Bradbury's humorous look at Britain's transition to midcentury modernityAfter spending a year teaching in an American university in the 1950s, Malcolm Bradbury returned to England only to realize that his native country had become nearly as mystifying to him as the American Midwest.

Malcolm Bradbury’s humorous look at Britain’s transition to midcentury modernity After spending a year teaching in an American university in the 1950s, Malcolm Bradbury returned to England only to realize that his native country had become nearly as mystifying to him as the American Midwest.

Introduction to Design Theory introduces a comprehensive, systematic, and didactic outline of the discourse of design.

The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over two hundred years.

In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked-despite its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region.

Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies-not only the societies of origin and destination, but also, the societies in places beyond.

The backlash against globalization and the rise of cultural anxiety has led to considerable re-thinking among social scientists.

Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase.

This groundbreaking book investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade across North Africa and Europe.

Court of Injustice reveals how immigration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights of those they serve.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Chabad Hasidic movement and its designated Messiah.

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investment destination.

Permanent Revolution concisely describes the development and workings of capitalism and its influence on the broader society.

Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United States.

The Pakistan Army is a uniquely powerful and influential institution, with vast landholdings and resources.

"e;An intelligent and insightful study"e; of the cultural and economic factors surrounding female sex workers in Japan (Nicole Constable, author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers).

"e;Garth's in-depth and intimate ethnography portrays the shortcomings in Cuba's welfare system, and the profound consequences for the way people eat.

Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives.

After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance.

A Middle East scholar shares an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.

Uber's April 2016 launch in Buenos Aires plunged the Argentine capital into a frenzied hysteria that engulfed courts of law, taxi drivers, bureaucrats, the press, the general public, and Argentina's president himself.

Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements.

In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to generation.

Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas.

In the Philippines, a dramatic increase in labor migration has created a large population of transnational migrant families.

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty.

In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired a documentary about a small, rural village called Awra Amba, where women ploughed, men worked in the kitchen, and so-called harmful traditional practices did not exist.

Technology is rapidly changing the way we think about money.

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico.

The assertion that even institutions often viewed as abhorrent should be dispassionately understood motivates Arkotong Longkumer's pathbreaking ethnography of the Sangh Parivar, a family of organizations comprising the Hindu right.

What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope?

This cultural history reveals how cats became the undisputed mascot of the internet-"e;an essential look at life online"e; (Ryan Milner, author of The World Made Meme).

The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "e;human"e; part of "e;human rights.

Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution, and consumption of movies and music in Brazil.

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe.

On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi-the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita.

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion.

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins-and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity).

What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world?

Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank.

How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody?

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories-geographic, temporal, storied-of several extended Salvadoran families.

A strike pattern is a signature of violence carved into the land-bomb craters or fragments of explosives left behind, forgotten.

Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded.

In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation.

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The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption.