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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 .....

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...

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...

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

Studies in the History and Lamguage of the Sarmatians

Europa et Hungaria: Congressus ethnographicus in Hungaria

Sunshine Shepherd Boy

Bevezetés a Megőrzött ízek sorozathoz. Jellegzetes magyar állatainkat mutatja be, ember és állat ősidők óta a természet által féltve őrzö...

Spotlight on Britain - second edition

Soviet ethnography: Main trends

Spotlight on Australia

Ethnology

Why Food Matters: Critical Debates in Food Studies

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Csángó

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions

Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions closely examines India's private education sector--especially its techni...

Savages and Citizens - How Indigeneity Shapes the State

This book takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, the...

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...

Devil's Contract - The History of the Faustian Bargain

A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond ... From ancient times to the ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Calibrated Engagement - Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar

For decades, the heartland of Myanmar has been configured as a pacified space under military surveillance. A closer look reveals how poli...