Social and cultural anthropology

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them.

How do our beliefs about living with chronic illness shape the way we approach treatment and care?

In Erik Mueggler’s powerful and imaginative ethnography, an Indigenous community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the margins of a nation-state.

What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own?

In The End of the Future, author Bartholomew Dean broadens the theoretical framework for understanding memory's role in reconciliation following a violent conflict.

Taking aim at the conventional narrative that standard, national languages transform 'peasants' into citizens, Gina Anne Tam centers the history of the Chinese nation and national identity on fangyan - languages like Shanghainese, Cantonese, and dozens of others that are categorically different from the Chinese national language, Mandarin.

Epidemiology ostensibly exists to reveal and ascribe features to burdens of disease at a population level.

El Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, parte integral del Sistema Nacional de Areas Protegidas (SINAP) desde la adopcion de la Convencion de Diversidad Biologica a traves de la Ley 165 de 1994, enfrenta varios desafios que podrian comprometer su conservacion y eficacia.

COVID-19 devastated countries in both developed and developing countries.

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories.

History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land.

As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.

This book addresses the alarming state of the planet and considers a potential new role for architecture in the Anthropocene.

COVID-19 devastated countries in both developed and developing countries.

This volume reflects nearly two years of Zoom interviews conducted leading up to and following the 2020 US election.

A view into the diverse culture of the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Although Manila, capital city of the Philippines, played a critical role in economic and cultural exchanges between the East and the West during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, little is known about what life was like for its residents during this time.

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them.

The book is about how art arose; and how it became what we call art today.

The book is about how art arose; and how it became what we call art today.

This book uncovers the vibrant yet complex world of China's internet literature, exploring how it thrives amid plagiarism debates and redefines intellectual property in the digital age.

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known.

Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation.

This book uncovers the vibrant yet complex world of China's internet literature, exploring how it thrives amid plagiarism debates and redefines intellectual property in the digital age.

Playing with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust is the first book to explore the interplay of food, humor, and disgust in multimodal media.

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known.

Based on original research, Japan's Minorities provides a clear historical introduction to the formation of individual minorities, followed by an analysis of the contemporary situation.

Playing with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust is the first book to explore the interplay of food, humor, and disgust in multimodal media.

This book links colonial nostalgia to the reactivation of white supremacism in the Global North.

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Quechua, with nearly ten million speakers living primarily across the Andes, stands as the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas today.

Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.

With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy, and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America.

Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences.

Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity.

Balkan Vampires examines how vampire motifs from Balkan folklore have permeated modern sociocultural and political realms, exploring their role in rural traditions and transformation under global influences.

Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity.

This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism.

This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism.

Detailing the contemporary obstacles and battles that marginalized groups must fight, this handbook provides a comprehensive account that enables readers to understand the harmful nature of these issues and how they serve to place and keep marginalized groups at a disadvantage.

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.

This book provides a comparative, theoretical, and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries.

This book links colonial nostalgia to the reactivation of white supremacism in the Global North.

This book provides a comparative, theoretical, and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries.

This book examines the ways in which Nigeria's borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country's relations with other African states.

In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism.

Quechua, with nearly ten million speakers living primarily across the Andes, stands as the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas today.

With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy, and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America.

For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture.