Social and cultural anthropology

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?

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

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

Die unheimliche Karriere eines unscheinbaren Kristalls.

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

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

Ich auch – über Frauen und MännerIst es nicht letztlich dasselbe, wenn Männer Frauen diskriminieren, Weiße Schwarze, Reiche Arme?

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

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

Los estudios y ensayos que se presentan en este volumen examinan algunos puntos de particular importancia para la comprensión de la evolución histórica del subcontinente americano con el propósito de arrojar luz en torno a temas fundamentales como la religión, geografía, identidad nacional, economía y aspectos jurídicos en diferentes etapas históricas americanas.

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

There are not many books about how people get younger.

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

Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading international anthropologists alongside emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean.

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

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Este tercer volumen valora puntos nodales de la historia del subcontinente americano, sin pretender estudiarlos todos, ni cubrir todas las variantes posibles de los diferentes espacios.

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

Der Untergang der Kultur und der Religionen der alten Welt im Christentum vollzieht sich "in, mit und unter" Herausbildung des neuen allumfassenden und allesverschlingenden Mythos vom Christ, der als Sohn Gottes aus seiner himmlischen Vorexistenz in die Welt geboren wurde, um das Reich des "Fürsten dieser Welt", das Reich Satans oder des Teufels, das im Tode gipfelt, zu zerstören und die Menschheit durch die Aufrichtung des Reiches Gottes aus seinen Banden und vor dem nahenden Weltgericht zu erretten.

What does it mean to be ageing in Chile as a migrant?

'Who am I at this (st)age?

Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities' public spaces.

Fasten ist viel mehr als nicht essen.

Anthropology has neglected the study of music.

Since the early 1990s, Mongolia began its hopeful transition from socialism to a market democracy, becoming increasingly dependent on international mining revenue.

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?

Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists.

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.

Sonnenstrahlen sind gefährlich, kein Zweifel.

Pedro Cunill muestra la transformación geohistórica de Latinoamérica a partir de la década de 1960: la incidencia de los cambios climáticos y estacionales en la desertificación y en la regulación hídrica; las múltiples catástrofes geográficas y físicas; la repercusión de la violencia política y de la sobreexplotación de recursos naturales en la población y la producción, así como en la circulación de bienes y en el espacio urbano.

What constitutes a healthy diet?

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

In 'Totem and Taboo,' Sigmund Freud delves into the realms of psychological anthropology, exploring the origins of civilization through the lens of psychoanalysis.

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

Echtes, gutes deutsches Brot braucht liebevolle Handarbeit, sagen die einen.

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.

Marriage globally is undergoing profound change, provoking widespread public comment and concern.

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.

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

God se liefde is baie sterker as die vyand se slinkse planne.

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