Social and cultural anthropology

Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration.

Violent Affections uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people.

Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building.

Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry.

The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is.

What does the collapse of India's tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era?

There are not many books about how people get younger.

A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call 'stupid' events, festivals and parades.

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives.

Since the popularisation of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it.

Anthropology has neglected the study of music.

What constitutes a healthy diet?

The Aral Sea is well known for its devastating regression over the second half of the twentieth century, and for its recent partial restoration.

The Intimate Life of Dissent examines the meanings and implications of public acts of dissent, drawing on examples from ethnography and history.

China's distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation's vast number of internet users, but has China's countryside been 'left behind' in this communication revolution?

Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement.

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly.

Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world - or so we are told.

Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion.

Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarctica.

'Who am I at this (st)age?

Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into ethnographic practice.

Um documentário verdade ,com a narrativa em tempos de corona vírus .

Não sofra por amor ,faça ele te amar!

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy.

A "e;gripping"e; behind-the-scenes look at New York's sanitation workers by an anthropologist who joined the force (Robert Sullivan, author of Rats).

I naxi sono il gruppo etnico più affascinante della Cina.

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.

A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at beforeRumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa-the period of "e;running around"e; that begins for their youth at age sixteen.

This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places.

The health and vitality gained after changing the diet is so miraculous that gluten-free people want to tell their loved ones all about it in hopes that they too will want to change.

Li-emba is the cause of any and everything, it explains any and everything, and it solves nothing and nothing at all.

Inflammation inarguably has been identified as the father of all disease.

This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and at specific critical historical conjunctures at which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.

Three essential works that redefined the art of journalism by “one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers” (The New York Times).

The world is flat?

For over a decade the cult of La Santa Muerte has grown rapidly in Mexico and the United States.

Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance.

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning.

De novembre 1975 à octobre 1976, Serge Bouchard a voyagé avec des camionneurs dans le Nord-Ouest québécois.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.