The age of wild ghosts

In Erik Mueggler’s powerful and imaginative ethnography, an Indigenous community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the period that began with the Great Leap Famine of 1958-1960 and continued through the 1990s as...

Economic and social development in the iron age cyclades, 1000–480 bce

This monograph explores how economic and social development occurred in the Cycladic Islands between the Late Bronze Age and the Persian Wars. The examination sets the remarkable 8th to 6th century development into a diachronic context. A comprehensive set of archaeologically attested evidence fr...

Hawaiian mythology

Without question, Martha Warren Beckwith’s Hawaiian Mythology is one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on the indigenous culture of Hawai’i before annexation. Bringing together three decades of research; the book guides readers through variant narratives and core motifs, exploring ...

Pushed to the edge

Powerful tales of resilience, from educators and librarians in the face of the growing bigotry stoked by the far right“Heartbreaking yet hopeful, Pushed to the Edge is a powerful revelation of the war taking place against public school teachers and their students.” —JoAnne Tompkins, author of Wha...

Repair, brokenness, breakthrough

We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

Dialect and nationalism in china

Fifty years of title ix

A “valuable, well-researched and nuanced history” (Booklist) of the groundbreaking law that transformed education, athletics, and gender equity in the United States—and the battles still being fought today In 1972, thirty-seven words quietly entered federal law and ignited a revolution: “No per...

Keep going

This book is a guide to help workplace organizers get started, keep going, and get unstuck when things aren’t going as expected. Organizing is full of challenges and dilemmas. How do you decide who to talk to, if your coworkers all seem scared or apathetic? What if you invite people to a meeting...

There's nothing like this

Featured in Rolling Stone, People Magazine, US Weekly, USA Today, The Financial Times, and more"Part tell-all book and part how-to guide, The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift offers music fans and Swifties alike a chance to learn from one of the biggest pop stars of all time." — Rolling StoneName...

Visionary voices

Feminist movements have made a profound impact on both spiritual and political practices; as a multicultural collection of interviews with women about the complexities of personal and social empowerment, this book connects the two through the voices of activists, healers and artists, poets and po...

Courage or complicity?

For generations, America has thanked its veterans for their service but then forgotten promises made to them. That’s why some former soldiers have always ended up on the barricades or picket lines, demanding justice for themselves or fellow workers back home. From Revolutionary War volunteers w...

Anwaltschaft zwischen solidarität und hegemonialer praxis

Unser nächster Band ist dem Thema Anwaltschaft gewidmet. Anwaltschaft (advocacy) ist ein zentraler Begriff im internationalen politischen Diskurs, v. a. in Menschenrechtskontexten und in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, der zunächst auf uneigennützige, öffentliche themenanwaltliche Interessenvertr...

Food and sustainability in the twenty-first century

Unlike the other books in the market, this volume brings a multidisciplinary focus to bear on the topic. The volume emphasises the symbiosis between different subject areas, and demonstrates the value in analysing food sustainability from multiple perspectives. The disciplinary fulcrum...

A people’s guide to abolition and disability justice

Disability justice and prison abolition are two increasingly popular theories that overlap but whose intersection has rarely been explored in depth. A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice explains the history and theories behind abolition and disability justice in a way that is ...

Learning from the children

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult–child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the ...

Dermatoglyphics

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Children of the camp

This is one of the very few books published focusing on refugee youth and the only one focusing on Somali refugee youth in protracted exile; The use of photography teaching as a research method is rather unusual and gives an insight into the visual world of young refugees in camps; T...

Ordinary lives and grand schemes

The volume looks at the experience of religion in the intersection of existential ends and grand schemes in everyday practice. Focussing on different religious traditions around the world, the volume offers a comparative and global perspective to living with greater powers that looks bey...

Reconceiving muslim men

Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this...

De gruyter handbook of digital health and society

The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Health and Society explores how digitalization is reconfiguring practices of health and medicine. Digitalisation requires health and medical practices to address and utilise the interrelated challenges posed by increased quantification (e.g., data-intensive medi...

Jesus reclaimed

In this cross-cultural study the author compares Jewish and Christian discourses. Offers a historical account of Jewish perspectives on the Nazarene and the potential reasons for the recent increased interest in Jesus. Contrasts the Jewish quest for a historical Jesus against the har...

Foodscapes, foodfields, and identities in the yucatán

The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from “Mexicans.” This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the a...

Taming oblivion

Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical construction of senility-as-pathology has become increasingly the norm in North America, in Japan a folk category of senility exists kn...

Feeding anxieties

Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools...

Sense and essence

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and ...

Symbols of resistance

Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico. The film engages student activists, the effect of police repression, and how issues of identity, land, and community still resonate in the Chican@ struggles of today. Th...

Pilgrimage and political economy

Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow – and sometimes create – trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, ...

This is my real name

The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper.

Match-striking for beginners

Impactful change for a better self and better world begins with you. This is your playbook to ignite power from the margin.

Childbirth, midwifery and concepts of time

All cultures are concerned with the business of childbirth, so much so that it can never be described as a purely physiological or even psychological event. This volume draws together work from a range of anthropologists and midwives who have found anthropological approaches useful in their wor...

The warehouse

Mass incarceration is a lived, sensory experience.The most eye-popping statistics alone cannot relate the enormity of its psychological and societal impacts. This concise, illustrated primer is a collaboration between one of mass incarceration’s sharpest opponents, James Kilgore, and information ...

Understanding cultural transmission in anthropology

Extensive multidisciplinary contributions Wide coverage of cultural transmission in various cognate fields Contributions from leaders in relevant disciplinary fields

The peirce seminar papers

Philosophers and linguists have come together for this volume to provide a glimpse of current thinking about language in a semiotic mode and of the analyses that result from applying the theory of signs of the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) to subjects that Pe...

Nationalism revisited

Focused on the German-speaking parts of the former Habsburg Empire, this book offers a series of analyses of the interplay of nationalism’s discursive and institutional facets. Christian Karner develops a distinctive, longue durée perspective on Austrian nationalism, which traces nationalist po...

Three way fight

What’s the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does it mean when fascists intensify racial oppression and patriarchy but also call for the downfall of economic elites or even take up arms against the state? Three way fight politics confront these...

Human origins

Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evol...

The journalism of milena jesenská

Milena Jesenská, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own letters did not survive. Later biographie...

Outsiders

In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and...

Housing justice

Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity provides accessible, future-facing language for housing scholars, practitioners, and activists. At a time when the housing question is being reshaped by financialization, dispossession, displacement, and resistance across global contexts, this v...

The study of culture at a distance

The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in ...

Hierarchy and value

Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy—...

Medicinal rule

This book is the first to introduce medicine as the forgotten model of rule in central and east Africa This book introduces medicinal rule to replace the obsolete trope of divine kingship. It breaks with the old scholarly division of politics and religion This book is a rare comparat...

Slipping away

During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This vol...

Taboo, truth and religion

Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. Mor...

Roma activism

Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of...

Culture and crisis

It is often argued that Germany and Scandinavia stand at two opposite ends of a spectrum with regard to their response to social-economic disruptions and cultural challenges. Though, in many respects, they have a shared cultural inheritance, it is nevertheless the case that they mobilize differ...

Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche erinnerungsforschung

Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Grundlagen, Schwerpunkten und Perspektiven der Beschäftigung mit kommunikativem Erinnern und medialem Gedächtnis. Damit erschließen seine Beiträge das Feld kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Erinnerungsforschung und verknüpfen es mit komplemen...

The annoying difference

Evaluates Denmark's transformation in a 15 years research perspective Explores ideas of cultural incompatibility and zero-tolerance A comprehensive study on the emergence of Danish national populism Offers a new perspective on the increased conflation of media and politics

Coming of age in times of uncertainty

Adulthood is taken for granted. It connotes the end of childhood, the resolution to the “storm and stress” period of adolescence. This conception is strongly entrenched in the sociology of youth and the sociology of the life course as well as in the policy arena. At the same time, adulthood its...

The hegemonic male

The construction of masculinity is becoming a field of growing interest because it is opening up new and fascinating perspectives, thus adding a further dimension to Gender Studies. However, so far the analysis has focused mostly on homosexuality. By contrast, the author examines social process...

Mixed harvest

After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event sin...

Migration, settlement and belonging in europe, 1500–1930s

Offers a new model of the way in which migrants in the past claimed rights and the obstacles placed in their way by communities and the State. Focus makes it ideal reading for those with interests in migrant rights and state obligations in the ever-expanding EU. Wide coverage of Euro...

Journal of prisoners on prisons v19 #2

For 25 years, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public disc...

Unveiling the whale

Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This b...

Other people's anthropologies

Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral schola...

People, money and power in the economic crisis

Based on empirical research. Combines empirical research with an analysis of wider processes of social, economic and political change. Comes out of an innovative network of scholars associated with the Human Economy Programme.

An australian indigenous diaspora

The first full-length ethnography applying the concept of diaspora to indigenous migration within the nation state. The first full-length account to provide a double perspective (both home and away) of the migration of Australian Indigenous people from remote settlements to towns and cit...

State practices and zionist images

Although the Israeli state subscribes to the principles of administrative fairness and equality for Jews and Arabs before the law, the reality looks very different. Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction b...

Moral power

Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch thr...

Democratic eco-socialism as a real utopia

Develops critical anthropology of the future Proposes an alternative to the existing world system based upon social parity, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate Argues that the notion of socialism needs to be revisited and reformulated to include dem...

Food research

A broad-based review of biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods.

Empire of pictures

Based on multi-lingual sources (German, Spanish, and English) and multi-archival research conducted in six different countries around the world. At the cutting edge of new research trends in the field of international/global history. The first work to analyze the important history of...

After difference

The first major English-language ethnography of LGBT life in Italy An account of how understandings of ‘difference’ have become vital both to contemporary forms of political activism and to social scientific knowledge practice A uniquely critical perspective on ethnography as a metho...

Migrants, refugees, and foreign policy

Foreign policies have always played an important role in the movements of migrants. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx from the former Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and th...

Foodways and empathy

The first in-depth ethnography of a Lower Ramu River society. Provides a unique ethnographic example of kinship / relatedness. Shows the conceptual convergence of foodways with empathy. Provides an example of the cultural dimensions of empathy.

The online world of surrogacy

A methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Examines definitions of parenthood, the symbolic role of money, reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of relationships.

Sounds german

Sounds German surveys the sociopolitical impact of music on German national identity, gender and sexuality, and transnational cultural production and consumption, expanding on the ways in which sounds, technologies, media practices, and exchanges of popular music provide a unique glimpse into t...

The making of the pentecostal melodrama

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, convers...

Saltwater sociality

The inhabitants of Pororan Island, a small group of ‘saltwater people’ in Papua New Guinea, are intensely interested in the movements of persons across the island and across the sea, both in their everyday lives as fishing people and on ritual occasions. From their observations of human movemen...

Racism in the modern world

Features historians from various regional specialisations Explores racism from comparative and transnational perspectives Seeks to answer questions relating to the diffusion of racial belief systems around the globe

Indigenous rights and development

The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s, they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the ...

Reflecting on reflexivity

Approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life an...

Finding ways through eurospace

Francophone migrations, french islam and wellbeing

Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political cons...

The ethnographic experiment

Concentrates on the neglected work by two such important early 20th-century scholars as Rivers and Hocart in Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia. Examines a little-known research effort that was to provide major foundations for the development of cross-cultural method and a...

Selfhood and recognition

The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of i...

Hairy hippies and bloody butchers

First book-length study of Greenpeace campaign against Norwegian whaling that I am aware of In-depth insight into the Greenpeace organization and the anti-whaling campaign with lots of insider accounts quoted Systems theory has so far not been used a lot to analyze social movements a...

Finding home in europe

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

Mythology, spirituality, and history

The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of thesoutheastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the la...

War stories

Presented is a lexicon of imagery, conventions, and symbols used by Plains Indians to communicate their warfare and social narratives. Familiarity with the lexicon will enable interested scholars and laypersons to understand what are otherwise enigmatic rock art drawings found from Calgary, Alb...

Tides of empire

The long shore

Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections a...

Ethnographies of movement, sociality and space

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the region as a conflict-ridden place. The contributions here d...

Engaging with strangers

An ethnographical analysis of "stranger sociality" - how the Solomon Islanders have embraced and incorporated outsiders over the course of 200 years. Describes engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian conversion, logging and conservation, post...

Re-orienting cuisine

An analysis of food in a global context where tastes, lifestyles and imaginations cross boundaries. An exploration of food's social and cultural meanings and functions.

A goddess in motion

Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.

The dream in islam

The first overview of historical and contemporary aspects of the true dream tradition in Islam. Covers: Sufism and dreaming; Islamic dream Incubation (Istikhara); militant Jihadist inspiration through dreams including al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders such as bin Laden and Mullah Omar; compar...

Economic citizenship

Describes how, with the spread of neoliberal projects, responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens has shifted from states to local communities. Exposes the paradoxes that are deep within neoliberal interpretations of citizenship. Analyzes the unexpected consequences...

House of the waterlily

House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya

Keywords of mobility

First in-depth anthropological) discussion of the keywords used in mobility studies. Coherent approach, with an introductory chapter and two concluding afterwords. Agenda-setting volume for future research in mobility studies. Collection of the most innovative thinkers in the ant...

Morality, hope and grief

Focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS Describes the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the t...

Ethnographies of conservation

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use practices...

Pregnancy in practice

Examines everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the United States today Brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction Of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike

Talking stones

First title to extensively investigate permanent non-state memorials in Northern Ireland. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data. Access to sources previously difficult to approach in situations of ethnic conflict or civil war. Includes a survey of local residents’ ...

Glimpses of hope

Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, ho...

Communities of faith

Most studies of modern religious change have viewed it as a process of secularization in which the advance of science and technology discredits religious beliefs and destroys religious institutions. Yet religion has stubbornly failed to expire in the West, and in some places is undergoing a res...

Anthropology and public service

Demonstrates how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Explains how anthropology scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Includes discussions of anthropologists’ work with the UK Department for Inte...

Travelling with the argonauts

New theoretical and methodological approach that moves away from vertical perspectives in studying the social. Creating conceptual space for studying form-free social phenomena such as informal networks. Critique of conventional methods of studying informal social relations. Flat...

Obstetric violence and systemic disparities

The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to ...