Anthropology

This book explores the challenges and opportunities that arise when high-tech innovation crosses cultural boundaries-and how it can be thoughtfully adapted before reaching the end user.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities that arise when high-tech innovation crosses cultural boundaries-and how it can be thoughtfully adapted before reaching the end user.

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States.

Entrelazar la historia y la antropología.

This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently driven by capitalist-consumerist forces that pose a challenge in terms of the community’s inclusion and accommodation.

Featuring hundreds of original, color photographs, this fascinating study of New Guinea chronicles the rituals and daily life of this remote and culturally rich region.

The most urgent question facing the Jewish community today is stark and undeniable: How do the Jews ensure their physical security in an increasingly hostile world?

Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed.

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States.

Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952.

How does anxiety impact narratives about African history, culture, and society?

An engaging social history of foreign tourists' dreams, the African tourism industry's efforts to fulfill them, and how both sides affect each other.

This guide to ancient Chinese I Ching astrology is easy-to-use and can offer incredible insights into your life!

This gastrological romp shares tales of gustatory tidbits from six continents.

Deja presente en Afrique du Nord il y a presque trois mille ans, la communaute juive a reussi a conserver sa cohesion et son identite par-dela les evenements historiques et les mouvements de populations qu'a connus la region.

Este fotolibro es un recorrido por la Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta a traves de las aguas, los oficios y las memorias.

This classic of Hawaiian literature offers a charming glimpse at the splendid and fascinating world of preAmerican Hawaii.

This very rare series of Japanese paintings depicts everyday artisans in feudal Japan.

This gastrological romp shares tales of gustatory tidbits from six continents.

Originally published in 1931, this classic work of interpretative Japanese scholarship was revised in 1946 and again in 1952.

This guide to ancient Chinese I Ching astrology is easy-to-use and can offer incredible insights into your life!

Featuring hundreds of original, color photographs, this fascinating study of New Guinea chronicles the rituals and daily life of this remote and culturally rich region.

This very rare series of Japanese paintings depicts everyday artisans in feudal Japan.

The fascinating personal account from one of the first Westerners to live in Hawaii.

This stunning Hong Kong travel pictorial captures the architecture, culture, people, and cuisine of one of the most dynamic cities.

This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago.

This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.

This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago.

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is an extensive and authoritative collection of topical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives in the broad field of linguistic anthropology.

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone?

What does it mean to live through a world coming undone?

Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century.

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is an extensive and authoritative collection of topical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives in the broad field of linguistic anthropology.

This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments.

This book examines how states deploy cultural recognition and inclusion policies to build modernized national identities in diverse societies but reveals they also pay other useful dividends for governments.

Transmission of Japanese Jiuta Sokyoku for Shamisen and Koto: Negotiating Musical Identity offers a rich and compelling exploration of Japan's refined chamber music tradition for voice, shamisen (3-string lute), and koto (13-string zither).

Transmission of Japanese Jiuta Sokyoku for Shamisen and Koto: Negotiating Musical Identity offers a rich and compelling exploration of Japan's refined chamber music tradition for voice, shamisen (3-string lute), and koto (13-string zither).

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections.

This book takes inspiration from AIDS activist history to argue that current individualized approaches to the queer suicide crisis could be expanded to include structural work.

What is it about nonprofits that inspires so many to passionately support their agendas and others to adamantly seek their control?

What is it about nonprofits that inspires so many to passionately support their agendas and others to adamantly seek their control?

This book draws on research in community based literacy, geospatial literacy, family literacy, and ethnography to examine the complex dynamics of school choice and decision making, and the role literacy plays in advancing equity in schools and communities.

When Luiz Incio Lula da Silva of Brazils Workers' Party soared to power in 2003, he promised to end hunger in the nation.

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections.

The Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the past, present, and future of African borderlands, in all their complexity.

This Palgrave Pivot offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay between gender, identity, and religion among the Nat community, a marginalized nomadic group in India and Nepal.

This Palgrave Pivot offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay between gender, identity, and religion among the Nat community, a marginalized nomadic group in India and Nepal.

Michelle Fishburne did the unthinkable during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic: she motor-homed 12,000 miles all over the United States and sat down with hundreds of people face to face.