Anthropology

Entrepreneurship is the result of various contextual factors in the community, which are shaped by social challenges and business needs.

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s?

This book reframes the Irish abortion narrative within the history of women's reproductive health and explores the similarities and differences that shaped the history of abortion within the two states on the island of Ireland.

This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world.

This book tries to answer the question how different communities in such an arid area as the Iranian central plateau could have shared their limited water resources in a perfect harmony and peace over the course of history.

In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before.

This book examines the challenges often experienced  by film practitioners who find themselves researching within the academy, either as students or academics.

This book takes the globally recognised phenomenon of drag king performances as an opportunity for critical inquiry into the rise and fall of an urban scene for lesbian and queer women in Sydney, Australia (circa 1999-2012).

Exploring An t-Oileanach (anglicised as The Islandman), an indigenous Irish-language memoir written by Tomas O Criomhthain (Tomas O'Crohan), Mairead Nic Craith charts the development of O Criomhthain as an author; the writing, illustration, and publication of the memoir in Irish; and the reaction to its portrayal of an authentic, Gaelic lifestyle in Ireland.

This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners.

This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 13-15 October 2016.

This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants - from a comparative perspective.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

This book discusses men's friendships in relation to queer, discursive, and intersectional feminist theories.

Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines).

This book examines a range of contemporary ideas and arguments concerning the core yet unsettled clinical issues.

Focusing on non-human actors, Grazyna Gajewska expands the discussion of eroticism in contemporary culture by bringing in material culture, object studies, and "e;the anthropology of things.

This book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations.

This book addresses environmental and medical issues that could risk our well-being, our health, or even cause death.

Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences.

Islam and China are topics of relevance and contention in today's economic, political and religious climate.

This book explores the lived experiences of boxers in a French banlieue, largely populated by people from working-class and immigrant backgrounds.

This book highlights the intersection between theory and lived experience, academic description and the personal narrative of Lou Sullivan.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the contemporary naturecultural world by exploring infrastructures through the dwelling approach.

This book is the first to apply systematic palaeopathological, archaeological and historical investigations (using bones as a focus as well as other supporting lines of information) to Chinese osteological materials in order to answer the question about the origins of cattle labour.

This book unpacks how the ethical is embodied through an examination of the lived experiences of female Muslim volunteers in Belgium.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation.

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger's writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiesis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing.

This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a 'ground' for the further development of quantitative approaches.

This book is an exploration of the relationship between irregular migrants, many originating from southern Philippines and the sea, in their struggle against the realities of state power in Sabah.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolutionary origins of same-sex attraction, evaluating multiple existing evolutionary theories.

This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards.

This edited collection explores the multiple ways in which ethnography and health emerge and take form through the research process.

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting.

This book examines how the beliefs and practices of each of the major world religions, as well as other belief systems, affect the variables that influence growth and development in the Global South.

This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and mechanisms of the trade.

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors' entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing.

The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond.

This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the multidisciplinary field of research developed within Brazilian social sciences to study football as a major cultural and social phenomenon in the country.

This volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data.

In handicrafts and artisanal products, industry has witnessed both a technological shift and a renewed interest among customers, especially after the challenges and limitations of mass production became evident under the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this book, eleven recent college graduates describe in vivid detail their journeys from racially segregated, underfunded public schools to a state university, and the obstacles they encountered along the way.

This collection of articles reveals ritual to be a unique and powerful asset in healing trauma and broken relationships.

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today's society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

This book investigates how businesses can adapt their executive and fiscal practices to adopt an ethical, equal-opportunity approach.