Social and cultural anthropology

In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis.

In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere.

Ask a random American what springs to mind about Sedona, Arizona, and they will almost certainly mention New Age spirituality.

In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past.

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers.

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch.

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change.

Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans.

In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music.

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "e;lost paradise"e; of medieval Islamic Spain.

Though relatively unsung in the English-speaking world, Jean Rouch (1917-2004) was a towering figure of ethnographic cinema.

Unsettled Belonging tells the stories of young Palestinian Americans as they navigate and construct lives as American citizens.

"e;This is a book that springs from richness.

"e;Perhaps,"e; wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "e;the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power.

In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities.

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics.

The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents.

The social impact of the Internet and new digital technologies is irrefutable, especially for adolescents.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives.

In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives.

In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother.

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past.

Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?

Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?

Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama enjoy global popularity and relevance, yet the longstanding practice of oracles within the tradition is still little known and understood.

Tibetan Buddhism and the Dalai Lama enjoy global popularity and relevance, yet the longstanding practice of oracles within the tradition is still little known and understood.

Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition.

Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growing number of individuals who no longer affiliate with a religious tradition.

Starting a new organization is risky business.

Starting a new organization is risky business.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der modernen Hexerei und wie sie Ihr Leben bereichern kann.

The essential coffee gift for the coffee lover in your life, the perfect stocking filler or secret Santa gift, Coffee Creations is the expert guide to making to making coffee drinks at home.

Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.

When Spaniards invaded their realm in 1532, the Incas ruled the largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas.

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of NonfictionWhile the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "e;new birth of freedom,"e; Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral.

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of NonfictionWhile the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "e;new birth of freedom,"e; Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral.

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation.

In the decades it takes to bring up a child, parents face challenges that are both helped and hindered by the fact that they are living through a period of unprecedented digital innovation.

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.

There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.

Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence.

Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence.

This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers.

This book is a collection of studies of corrections and repair in conversation, by Gail Jefferson, co-founder of the field of Conversation Analysis and one of its foremost researchers.

One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods.

One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods.

Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life.

Caring for our family members, friends, and others is a central part of a rewarding life.

In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works.