Anthropology

Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world.

Founded in Chicago in 1969 from the rubble of the recently crumbled SDS, the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) brought working-class consciousness to the forefront of New Left discourse, sending radicals back into the factories and thinking through the integration of radical politics into everyday realities.

As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness.

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.

Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly.

The Ju/ hoan San, or Ju/ hoansi, of Namibia and Botswana are perhaps the most fully described indigenous people in all of anthropology.

In many parts of the world the white man is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity.

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts.

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations.

The relationship between anthropologists ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology.

How is law mobilized and who has the power and authority to construct its meaning?

Until recently the subject of suffering and evil was neglected in the sociological world and was almost absent in Durkheimian studies as well.

This engaging text introduces the burgeoning and interdisciplinary field of cultural performance, offering ethnographic approaches to performance as well as looking at the aesthetics of experience and performance theory.

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Why does Western culture remain fascinated with and saturated by cannibalism?

Bridging the gap in expertise between coal and coalbed gas, subfields in which opportunities for cross training have been nonexistent, Coal and Coalbed Gas sets the standard for publishing in these areas.

Diverse societies are now connected by globalization, but how do ordinary people feel about law as they cope day-to-day with a transformed world?

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior.

Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences.

Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today.

Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking people of South America.

Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race.

Drawing on both personal experience and critical theory, Carole Boyce Davies illuminates the dynamic complexity of Caribbean culture and traces its migratory patterns throughout the Americas.

This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system.

What does it mean to be accompanied?

Portrait of America describes our nation's changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities.

Praying and Preying offers one of the rare anthropological monographs on the Christian experience of contemporary Amazonian indigenous peoples, based on an ethnographic study of the relationship between the Wari', inhabitants of Brazilian Amazonia, and the Evangelical missionaries of the New Tribes Mission.

Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood.

This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products.

Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list.

Does the scientific "e;theory"e; that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence?

As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy.

Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century.

The study of migrant populations poses unique challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today.

Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.

Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world's poor.

"e;Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested.

Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste.

Omolade Adunbi investigates the myths behind competing claims to oil wealth in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists to explore the diversity of children's gender identities, expressions, and embodiments across historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.

The figure of the dog is a paradox.

Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet.

Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity.

What do we think about when we think about human evolution?

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance.

Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world.

This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are.

The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion.