Anthropology

This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli 'conflict' by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion.

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage.

This edited volume provides a long-overdue synthesis of the current directions in culture theory and represents some of the very best in ongoing research.

This edited volume constructs a 'cosmopolitics' of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it.

This book provides a more rational and systematic explanation for the origin and evolution of the Chinese narrative tradition, based on studies of Chinese literary classics, local culture and items such as bronze wares and porcelain vessels with "e;portrayed stories.

In the last decades, women's role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity.

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Over the last two decades, tourism has become firmly established as a recognized field of study and the focus of extensive academic research.

Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity.

This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh.

This book systematically assesses the value systems of active Muslims around the globe.

This book takes up the challenge of examining women's understandings of eating disorders and child sexual abuse away from a framework focused on pathology.

In this book, author Svein Olaf Thorbjornsen probes the question: What is at stake for human beings in a society dominated by competition, particularly economic competition?

This book is an innovative sociolinguistic study of New Australia, an Australian immigrant community in Paraguay in 1893, whose descendants today speak Guarani.

This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernandez, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist.

Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency.

This book provides a fine-grained ethnographic examination of the everyday negotiations and conflicts taking place in greenhouses and packinghouses in an agricultural district in south-eastern Italy (Sicily).

This book examines how we design and deliver health communication messages relating to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics.

This book interprets the close intimacy between poetry and painting from the perspective of intersemiotic translation, by providing a systematic examination of the bilingual and visual representation of landscape in the poetry of Wang Wei, a high Tang poet who won worldwide reputation.

This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that purpose).

Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu's Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars.

The richness of Africa's heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced.

This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West.

This volume explores the arts-based methodology of body mapping, a participant-driven approach wherein people create richly illustrated life-size maps that articulate their embodied experiences with various health issues.

When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom.

This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge.

This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan.

For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented.

This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojaya-Choco, Colombia.

Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the 'lumpen' end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum.

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism.

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation.

This book explores how human population genetics has emerged as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society.

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

This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan's puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan.

This monograph is based on pollution control technologies available to deal with water and air pollution.

This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the  dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge production, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland.

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology.

The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations.

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning?

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.

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers.

One of the major questions of cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while acknowledging our shared humanity.

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

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

We see it all the time: organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive, expansive media campaigns.

In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "e;Scheduled Tribes,"e; or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions.

As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research.

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words.