Anthropology

At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums.

The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil.

Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology.

This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.

Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline.

Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan.

From being an important centre which attracted a large number of merchants during the feudal period, Shingu, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City.

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women.

This engagingly written textbook provides a unique 'hands-on' introduction to sociolinguistics, which equips readers with the tools to start their own sociolinguistic research project.

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American.

Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with new ways of envisioning home, care, and family.

China has experienced a tremendous turn-around over the past three decades from the ethos of sacrificing life to the emergent appeal for valuing life.

The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies.

The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective.

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species.

This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films.

This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya.

This volume presents an account of the author's travels during 1912-13 making particular note of the characteristics of Indian, Chinese and Japanese societies and the effect upon them of contact with the West.

This book explores the politics of narco-killing and public attitudes to violence and death in the Mexican Drug War.

Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and political power in Italy, Spain, and Greece.

This book compares the beginning of symbolic thought in human infancy with that of our close primate relatives, the chimpanzees.

This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice.

This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when women's education became a possibility-and then a reality.

What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics?

This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924-86.

This collection brings together the work of a range of scholars from around the world with different perspectives on one simple question: How can we assess the value of various entertainment products and forms?

This book takes the head-scratching out of human sexuality.

This book offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group.

Exploring notions of the person through a wide range of anthropological literature, Cathrine Degnen analyses how personhood is built, affirmed, and maintained during various life stages and via multiple cultural forms and practices.

This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion.

This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 2,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Black LGBT communities within the United States.

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples.

This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes.

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

Can Islam Be French?

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist.

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future.

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms.

As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence.

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools.

From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology?

An intimate portrait of the Big AppleAs a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "e;Last Stop.

Why our approaches to Alzheimer's and dementia are problematic and contradictoryDue to rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing, and the projections are grim.

In The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran, Arzoo Osanloo explores how Iranian women understand their rights.

In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family.

How does an ethnographer write about violence?

How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform?

On August 7, 1998, bombs exploded at two United States embassies in East Africa.