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

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

State of Fear - Policing a Postcolonial City

Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control by examining ...

Santa Isabel - A Pictorial History from Solomon Islands

This portrait of Santa Isabel in over 600 pictures shows an island transformed by its colonial history yet maintaining a confident and di...

Resistance, Refuge, Revival - The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica

What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European onslaught? All but a few were wiped out. This remark...

Configuring Contagion - Ethnographies of Biosocial Epidemics

Expanding our understanding of contagion beyond the typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include the...

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...

Landscapes of Law - Practicing Sovereignty in Transnational Terrain

International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations between transnationalism, law, and culture The recent surge of right-...

1001 Ways of Seeing

How do we see art works? How do we see artefacts? How do we see our surroundings? How do we see the world? This book opens up a worldwide...

Mumbai on Two Wheels - Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility

"Mumbai on Two Wheels shows how pedaling through the city produces embodied and expert knowledge that should be considered when imagining...

The Lost Lives of Gaza

Israel’s relentless response to the October 7th murders on its southern border has turned Gaza yet again into a bloodbath, bringing unima...

Atmospheric Violence - Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flouris...

The Paleoanthropology of Eastern Asia

"Compared to paleoanthropological (human evolution) research in Africa and Europe, similar studies on Asia have lagged far behind. The pu...

From Forest Farm to Sawmill - Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State

"Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates first-hand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing...

Grandmothers' Wisdom - Living Portrayals from the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers

Grandmothers’ Wisdom is a vibrant tribute to the lives of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, an unprecedented...

Blackbird's Song - Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa People

This stirring account reflects on the lived experience of the Odawa people and the work of one of their greatest advocates.

The Rule of Dons - Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica

Rivke Jaffe explains how despite Jamaica’s “dons” are associated with crime and violence, they have become figures of political authority...

Dervishes Along the Silk Roads: Between Past and Present

This book highlights aspects of the spiritual culture within Islam that flourished along the 'Silk Roads' - the term coined by Ferdinand ...

Hokkaido Dairy Farm - Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan

Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of fron...

Anthropological Theory - An Introductory History

The #1 bestselling anthropological theory textbook - now available in ebook format

True Reconciliation

All Roads Home - A Life on and Off the Ice

Ethnocracy - Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine

Traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy sugges...

The Banality of Good - The Un's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking

Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite ...

Black Knights - Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

"Black Knights is the first book to offer a broad, theoretically grounded exploration of race in the creative literature of the Islamic M...

Carceral Citizens - Labor and Confinement in Puerto Rico

A nuanced take on how carceral expansions are changing labor and social life. In Carceral Citizens, anthropologist Caroline M. Parker off...

India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity - Emergence of a Possible Indo-Pacific Axis?

This book focuses on the scope, potential and future of the India-Japan-ASEAN trilateral. This book will be of interest to Asian politics...

Distancing the Past - Racism as History in South African Schools

Chana Teeger examines how young South Africans confront their country's racist apartheid past in high school history lessons, vividly chr...

New Democracy and Autocratization in Asia

This book determines why current Asian democracies have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism. It will be ...

China's Economic and Political Presence in the Middle East and South Asia

This book explores a range of key issues connected to China's relations with countries in the Middle East and South Asia. It discusses ec...

Policing Black Bodies in the 21st Century

In Ferguson and many other American communities, social media has raised the visibility of police actions, leading to protests and social...

Three Ways to Fail - Journeys Through Mapuche Chile

An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failure through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurper How do we learn what f...

Fragments of Home - Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter

"Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in t...

Selfishness and Selflessness - New Approaches to Understanding Morality

We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfis...

Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights - Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus -- a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indige...

Congo's Dancers - Women and Work in Kinshasa

In Defense of Sovereignty - Protecting the Oneida Nation's Inherent Right to Self-Determination

Practical Boat-Sailing - A Concise and Simple Treatise

Practical Training for Running, Walking, Rowing, Wrestling, Boxing, Jumping, and All Kinds of Athletic Feats; Together with tables of proportional measurement for height and weight of men in and out of condition; etc. etc.

Popular Pastimes for Field and Fireside, or Amusements for young and old

Remember, You Are Indigenous - Memories of a Native Childhood

Touring Afoot

To the American Indian

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 - Volume II

South with Scott

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 - Volume 1

South - The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

My Life at Sea; Being a "yarn" loosely spun for the purpose of holding together certain reminiscences of the transition period from sail to steam in the British mercantile marine (1863-1894)

Torrey's Narrative; or, The Life and Adventures of William Torrey

The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide; A practical manual of fireside magic and conjuring illusions, containing also complete instructions for acquiring and practising the art of ventriloquism.

Temporal Politics - Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures

Develops a new theory of political temporality to demonstrate how to conduct political analysis in times of conflict and uncertainty Adri...

Cultural Change Among the Algonquin in the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi...

Jihadism in the Russian-Speaking World - The Genealogy of a Post-Soviet Phenomenon

This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federati...

Shadow Education in the Middle East - Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications

This volume offers insights into the role of private supplementary tutoring in the Middle East, and its far-reaching implications for soc...

African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change

This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa. Drawing on a ra...

The Zimbabwean Maverick - Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking

This book discusses how Dambudzo Marechera rethinks utopia as an ongoing event that contests institutionalized narratives of the postcolo...

Indian Business in the Twentieth Century - Development within an Era of Globalisation

This book uses a combination of business history and political economy to chart the development of Indian business organisation from inde...

The Stuff of Hollywood

"A collection of poems by poet Niki Herd"--

Mobility and Armenian Belonging in Contemporary Turkey - Migratory Routes and the Meaning of the Local

What remains and becomes Armenian in a historically informed moment of increased mobility? Taking an anthropological approach with ethnog...

Hold Your Own

"A collection of poems by Nikki Wallschlaeger"--

The Man in the Dog Park - Coming Up Close to Homelessness

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who be...