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The Book of Hungarikums

When thinking of Hungary, such treasures might spring to mind as ground paprika from Kalocsa, Herend porcelain, or Hungarian operettas .....

The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we l...

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes

In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, an...

Dresdner Maya Codex

Weltneuheit! Reproduktion des berühmten Dresdener Codices, 14 Seiten originalgetreu nachgezeichnet. Im Original fehlende Stellen sind ges...

Europa et Hungaria: Congressus ethnographicus in Hungaria

Ways of Dwelling - Crisis - Craft - Creativity

This volume offers a selection of articles developed from the SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) congress 2017 in Gö...

The Csángó

Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkie Pastoral Nomads

Portraits of Papua New Guinea

Portraits of Papua New Guinea is a collection of over 200 pictures of its natives taken between 1997 to 2016. Each photograph tells a uni...

The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa / Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute im südlichen Afrika - A self-portrait in their own language - Eine Selbstdarstellung in ihrer eigenen Sprache

Dieser Band ist Teil der Enzyklopädie »Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute« des Afrikanisten Oswin Köhler. Darin werden Originalquellen mit Über...

Plurinational Afrobolivianity - Afro-Indigenous Articulations and Interethnic Relations in the Yungas of Bolivia

In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge ...

Wayang Indonesia - Die phantastische Welt des Indonesischen Figurentheaters

"Wayang" bezeichnet das indonesische Stabpuppen-Theater und davon abgeleitete Formen des Volkstheaters. Das Buch gibt nicht nur eine neue...

Dogon Masks in Motion

The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, never cease to fascinate. With the spectacular scenery and picturesque villages that dominate the ...

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian

At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a m...

Integrating Minorities: Traditonal Communities and Modernization

The present volume is dedicated to those ethnic groups and traditional communities of Eastern and Central Europe which have not been inte...

Master - An Ainu Story

Master - An Ainu Story provides a rare insight into the lives and culture of modern-day Ainu (an indigenous people of Japan). It has been...

Darkening Blackness - Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia...

Udvarhelyszéki mozaik - An Udvarhely County Mosaic

Első ránézésre egy gyönyörű fotóalbumot vehet kézbe az olvasó, amely udvarhelyi pillanatokat örökít meg. Ha jobban belelapozunk, akkor eg...

Darkening Blackness - Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia...

West New Guinea. West Papua - A Photo Album

Indonesia's easternmost landfall, is also its final hidden gemstone; from the depths of its oceans, to its rich mangroves, lowland and mo...

Dreams and Nightmares - Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have come to symbolize the two primary strands of black political thought during the civil rights mo...

Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology - Connecting India and Nepal

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and soc...

Dreaming Big in Post-War Greece - Neighborhood, Life Style, and Everyday Practices in the City of Thessaloniki

In post-war Greece, Western Allies, the country's conservative political elite and parts of the middle class share a dream of consolidati...

Exceptional Experiences - Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

"Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional ...

After Black Lives Matter - Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle

Contemporary policing reflects the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed

Glyphosate and the Swirl - An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move

Vincanne Adams takes the complex chemical glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and pervasive agricultural herbicide—to explore the...

Quiet Street: On American Privilege

"A bold and moving exploration of the American elite that exposes how the ruling class-even when well-intentioned-perpetuates cycles of w...

The Works of Li Qingzhao - China's Foremost Woman Poet

Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries o...

Udvarhelyszéki mozaik - An Udvarhely County Mosaic

Első ránézésre egy gyönyörű fotóalbumot vehet kézbe az olvasó, amely udvarhelyi pillanatokat örökít meg. Ha jobban belelapozunk, akkor eg...

Language Use, Attitudes, Strategies - Linguistic Identity and Ethnicity in the Moldavian Csángó Villages

Moldavian Csángós have been one of the most traditional ethnic groups of the Eastern European countries. This is due to the archaic eleme...

The Csángó

Why Food Matters: Critical Debates in Food Studies

Popular Devotion and Citizenship in Bolivia - Folkloric Confraternities and the Habits of Democracy at the Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña

With a wealth of citizen organizations representing the interests of their constituents, Bolivians are known for their vivid engagement w...

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene - The New Nature

"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretc...

Master Peace - Lebanon's Violence and the Politics of Expertise

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . . - Essays

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews...

Physicians of the Future - Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine

The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.

Limits of Life - Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience

New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. New techno-social c...

Tibetan Memoies - Stories from Exile and Dreams Deferred

This is the first book to present the stories and portraits of ordinary Tibetan women and men in exile, in their own words. It includes g...

The Black PhD Experience - Stories of Strength, Courage and Wisdom in UK Academia

Drawing on students' experiences of structural racism in the UK higher education institutions, this book offers an informed analysis on t...

What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? - Power, Identity and Nation-Building

In early 2022, protests rocked Kazakhstan. Initially peaceful demonstrations soon turned violent after brutal government crackdowns, leav...

The State Otherwise - Green Space, Advocacy and Citizenship in Beirut

The city of Beirut is increasingly congested, polluted and suffocating. Its already limited green public spaces are under growing threat ...

Becoming Other - Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Ber...

Birds through Indigenous Eyes - Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

"An intimate and personal account of the profound role birds play in Native American life and spirituality. For many hours over a period ...

Indigeneity, Development and Sustainability - Perspectives from Northeast India

This volume presents cutting-edge research on India's Northeast region relating to borders, material mobilities, contested identities, an...

Geographies of Difference, Indifference and Mis-Difference - The Guarani-Kaiowa People and the Myths of Brazilian Development

World-renowned scholar of human geography, development, and environmental change Antonio Ioris presents an original reconceptualisation o...

The Last Plantation - Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress

A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplace Racism continues to infuse Congress’s ...

Unruly Domestication - Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.

Aging Among Japanese American Immigrants - Activating Ethnicity

The ethnographic research explores the ethnic dimensions of aging among Japanese and Japanese-American elderly in the United States, and ...

Global Science - The Last Option Before Collapse

This book presents the culmination of a 14-year pathbreaking research project examining the risks of civilisation collapse and potential ...

Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Federalism

This collection highlights the urgency of reimagining federalism and the potential for federalism to support Indigenous sovereignty and s...

Circular Ecologies - Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China

After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating natio...

Chasing Traces - History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

La chance - Uncertainty, Knowledge Production and Gameplay among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates con...

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology - A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly ...

The Global Life of Mines - Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective

Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines ...

Immigrant Industry - Building Postwar Australia

After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industrie...

One Hundred Years of Argonauts - Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establi...

Our History Is the Future - Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Awards: One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022. PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America...

Care in a Time of Humanitarianism - Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South

The vast majority of forced migrants & refugees seek shelter and respite in countries of the Global South, where humanitarian spaces and ...