Social and cultural anthropology

When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children as toys.

Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America-the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status.

From Boas to Black Power investigates how U.

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying.

Indigenous people in Colombia constitute a mere three percent of the national population.

Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how "e;taking action"e; against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the "e;gray zone"e;, a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold.

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar.

"e;Mafia"e; has become an indigenous South Asian term.

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory.

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world.

The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange forcibly relocated one and a half million people: Muslims in Greece were resettled in Turkey, and Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey were moved to Greece.

The fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders.

Whether motivated by humanitarianism or concern over "e;porous"e; borders, dominant commentary on migration in Europe has consistently focused on clandestine border crossings.

What does it mean to be a "e;rights-holder"e; and how does it come about?

Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it.

"e;A glittering glimpse into a pure realization of late capitalism, and .

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong.

As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures.

In 1991, the Israeli government introduced emergency legislation canceling the general exit permit that allowed Palestinians to enter Israel.

Human rights are politically fraught in Turkey, provoking suspicion and scrutiny among government workers for their anti-establishment left-wing connotations.

National Matters investigates the role of material culture and materiality in defining and solidifying national identity in everyday practice.

Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes.

Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children.

Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren-self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation-as the ultimate goal of education.

Radical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood.

A central motor of Argentine historical and political development since the early twentieth century, unions have been the site of active citizenship in both political participation and the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural rights.

The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage.

Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers.

Drawing on a decade of research into the community that proposed the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque,"e; this book refutes the idea that current demands for Muslim moderation have primarily arisen in response to the events of 9/11, or to the violence often depicted in the media as unique to Muslims.

Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated.

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia.

Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War.

Comedy is a brutal business.

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die.

Since the initial publication of Cultures@SiliconValley fourteen years ago, much has changed in Silicon Valley.

China's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within families.

When the state of Israel was established in 1948, not all Palestinians became refugees: some stayed behind and were soon granted citizenship.

When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt.

In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help.

The Mexico-Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people.

America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

For a basic introduction to anti-Semitism past and present, the first place to turn is now Rabbi Evan Moffic's First the Jews.

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada.

What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman?

Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities.

Over the last few decades and from across a spectrum of centrist political thought, a variety of academic disciplines, and numerous public intellectuals, the claim has been that we need to empathize more with marginalized people as a way to alleviate social inequalities.

A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface?

Acoustic Justice engages issues of recognition and misrecognition by mobilizing an acoustic framework.

Acoustic Justice engages issues of recognition and misrecognition by mobilizing an acoustic framework.