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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Politics of Relations - How Self-Government, Infrastructures, and Care Transform the State in Serbia

"Rethinking the contributions of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology for political ethnography, the Politics of Relations elabor...

INSTEAD - Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative

Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous environmental and cul...

Landscapes of Movement and Predation - Perspectives from Archaeology, History, and Anthropology

Landscapes of Movement and Predation is a global study of times and places, in the colonial and precolonial eras, where people were subje...

Subject Lessons - Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways. It is a way to l...

Performing State Boundaries - Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produ...

Learning to Lead - Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education

Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented college students, showing how they build polit...

Beothuk - How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integr...

Becoming Little Shell - A Landless Indian's Journey Home

“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”—David Treuer, author of The Heart...

Caracoleando Among Worlds - Reconstructing Maya Worldviews in Chiapas

This book focuses on the analysis of the contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas. At the heart of this examination is a...

Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism - Evocative Moments in Doing Ethnography

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the Unted States, this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and pr...

Becoming Good Women - Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka

For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves as a significant base f...

Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion - The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro

The Gitanos of el Rastro carry an 'ontology of simultaneity' as self-employed traders and Pentecostal practitioners in Madrid. This makes...

Frontier Ethnographies - Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Ethnography destabilizes the notion of the frontier as merely a geographic space and conveys its limitations--that lead researchers to re...

The Hidden Minority - Perceptions of Belonging and Otherness in the Finnish - Russian Borderland

Looking at the Finnish-Russian borderland as a transnational space and claiming that there is a need to understand the long-term effects ...

Radcliffe-Brown - Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1995) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stere...

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...

Historieta Doble - A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research

Drawing on archives, oral narrative, and ethnographic fieldwork, this graphic novel uncovers the vibrant history of social science resear...

Wembley Speaks - A Year in the Life of a London Suburb

Wembley Speaks is a cross between oral history and grassroots sociology: an authentic picture of a London suburb based on what its reside...

Thailand's Far South - Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict

Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslim-majority provinces in Tha...

Barrio San Siro - Structural Violence in the Peripheries of Milan

This book collects the results of five years of ethnographic research in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing neighborhoods an...

Walled-In - Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls

In this ethnography of the contemporary lived experience of Inuit in Arviat, Nunavut, van den Scott examines the relationship between col...

Who We Are - Four Questions for a Life and for a Nation

Feeling Machines - Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care

In recent years, debates over healthcare have accompanied rapid advances in technology, from the expansion of telehealth services to arti...

The Children of Solaga - Indigenous Belonging Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their...

Cookstove Chronicles - Social Life of a Women's Technology in India

Cookstove Chronicles examines India's handcrafted, wood-burning cooking stoves, the rural women who use them, and outsiders who try to im...

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope - Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation

The Graduate Programs in Education faculty and staff at Thompson Rivers University are actively engaged in strengthening our heartbeat in...

Emerging Infections - Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present

This accessible textbook provides the first comprehensive synthesis of both the societal and environmental drivers of emerging infectious...

Freak Inheritance - Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance

In Freak Inheritance, both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations...

Museum Temporalities - Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum

This volume is the first of its kind in focusing on the temporalities of museum work. Wayne Modest, Peter Pels and contributors analyze c...

Deaf Mobility Studies - Exploring International Networks, Tourism, and Migration

Examines the global lives of deaf people, crafted by five deaf ethnographers.

Modern Japan

Organized by theme, this comprehensive encyclopedia examines all aspects of life in Japan, from geography and government to food and etiq...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Anarcho-Indigenism - Conversations on Land and Freedom

Explores the possibilities that indigenous thought and traditions have for emancipatory, decolonial, feminist societies beyond the state

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...