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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Csángó

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...

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

Martín Prechtel's experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

Decolonizing African Studies - Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice

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...

Thinking Like a Climate - Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

INSTEAD - Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...