Anthropology

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM).

Nerval's book is a gripping excursion into the dark recesses of our cultural past, from the malicious spirits of the ancient civilizations to the hellish monsters of current pop culture.

The book describes the experience of four Social Dreaming Matrices held online between March and May 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the Covid 19 emergency.

How do older queer adults navigate space, community, and social environments?

In The Ends of Research Tom Ozden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the "e;War in the Woods,"e; a period of anti-logging blockades in Canada in the late twentieth century.

Discover The Consolidation of the South China Frontier, a compelling exploration of how the People's Republic of China has managed its diverse national minorities.

The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss.

This book explores the emergence and growth of Zen as a non-monastic spiritual practice in modern Japan.

This book presents the state of the art on cultural heritage and tourism globally.

This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed.

This book examines Fanti kinship terminology from a variety of analytic and formal perspectives.

Von Steinmännern, Käse und der Liebe zum (saisonalen) Leben in den Bergen: Acht Einblicke in Vorarlberger Alltäglichkeiten.

We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them.

This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power.

In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology.

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field.

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to "e;decolonise"e; legal education across the world.

Städte sind seit jeher Orte, deren Räume und Ressourcen umkämpft sind.

How do older queer adults navigate space, community, and social environments?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Japanese two-year-olds are indulged, dependent, and undisciplined toddlers, but by the age of six they have become obedient, self-reliant, and cooperative students.

Flavonoids are known to have positive effects on human and animal health and are employed for disease therapy and chemoprevention.

This book takes a unique approach to the ethnographic and analytical explorations of ecologies in the making.

Written by a founder member of Extinction Rebellion Youth London, this is no greenwashing book - it's an important call to action.

How does a white man understand what it's like to be Black?

How does a white man understand what it's like to be Black?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

As conflict resolution becomes increasingly important to urban and rural peoples around the globe, the value of this classic anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison, and perception of the law is acclaimed by policy makers as well as anthropologists throughout the world.

This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power.

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants.

Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores "e;Rastahood"e;, a community, youth culture, and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium.

Heritage Statecraft and Corporate Power examines the politicization of heritage and heritage conflicts in Siberia.

This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai.

This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental illness in India.

This edited volume examines what the classic text The Ethnography of Reading (Boyarin ed.

Considerado uno de los grandes antropólogos franceses del siglo XX, Philippe Descola realiza sus primeros trabajos de campo en la Amazonia.

La institución policial ha perdido credibilidad ante los ciudadanos.

This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes-or obentos-that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons.

In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London.

Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism.

Franz Boas in Translation is the ultimate study of the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas and his work on the American Northwest.

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space.

This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community.