Social and cultural anthropology

In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments.

Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences.

How is cultural change perceived and performed by members of the Bena Bena language group, who live in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea?

In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity.

Development interventions often generate contradictions around questions of who benefits from development and which communities are targeted for intervention.

Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world.

Anthropology begins in the encounter with the exotic : what stands outside of and challenges conventional or established understandings.

Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed and consumed throughout the world.

The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture.

There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad.

In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology.

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public.

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general.

The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery.

This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain and the local daily-life realities of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labour force.

The January 2015 shooting at the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the subsequent attacks that took place in the Ile-de-France region were staggeringly violent events.

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA).

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition.

The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities.

Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored.

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has not been fully developed.

The "e;extensive wilderness"e; of Zambia s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries.

For the Orang Rimba of Sumatra and tropical foragers in general life in the forest engenders a kind of connectedness that is contingent not only on harmonious relations between people, but also between people and the non-human environment, including those supernatural agencies of the forest that people depend on for their spiritual and emotional wellbeing.

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands.

With the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities.

Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date.

The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the Little-Middles a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes.

Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions.

Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H.

Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population s interaction with modern medicine.

Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia.

The socio-economic transformations of the 1990s have forced many people in Poland into impoverishment.

Moving Places draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making.

Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology offers nothing less than a reinventing of the discipline of anthropology.

Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this book introduces a local world where social relationships are cast in witchcraft-like idioms of mistrust and suspicion.

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape.

Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought.

UNIVERSOS CHIBCHAS marca un hito en la antropología y la etnografía indígena al problematizar la unidad y diversidad de los pueblos de lengua chibcha, los más importantes de la región istmocolombiana, la cual se extiende desde el litoral de Honduras hasta los Andes de Colombia y Venezuela.

Those who leave their homelands, either under duress or by design, will see them in a different light than those who have stayed put.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam.

This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam.

The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants.

The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants.

They will have justice.

Anthropologist Claude L,vi-Strauss was among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

We all expect to be able to buy an excellent cup of coffee from the many brilliant coffee shops available.

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century.