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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Decolonizing African Studies - Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice

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...

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...

From Lapland to Sápmi - Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture

A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts Material objects—things made, used, and treasu...

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...

Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

A sweeping narrative about the rise and fall of the Comanche, the most powerful and influential tribe in American history.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Europa et Hungaria: Congressus ethnographicus in Hungaria

Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkie Pastoral Nomads

Anarcho-Indigenism - Conversations on Land and Freedom

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

The Book of Hungarikums

When thinking of Hungary, such treasures might spring to mind as ground paprika from Kalocsa, Herend porcelain, or Hungarian operettas .....

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...

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...

The Csángó

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 Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India - Emerging Negotiations

Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life. This hand...

The Lowland South American World

The Lowland South American World provides both an in-depth knowledge of Lowland South American life ways and engaging readers in urgent s...

The Routledge Handbook of Tribe and Religions in India - Contemporary Readings on Spirituality, Belief and Identity

This handbook explores the diversity of religious practice in tribal cultures in India. It looks at the interactive spaces where the reli...

Latinx Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture and New Media

This volume provides a partial mapping of the ambivalent representational forms and cultural politics that have characterized Latinx iden...

Anthropology Anywhere - Understanding Lived Experience

Anthropology Anywhere invites readers on a journey to understand the diversity and interconnectedness of humanity by presenting a new fra...

Countering Modernity - Communal and Cooperative Models from Indigenous Peoples

This volume highlights and examines how Indigenous Peoples continue to inhabit the world in counter-modern ways. It illustrates how commu...

South American Policy Regionalism - Drivers and Barriers to International Problem Solving

Contrasting three schools of thought in international relations, South American Policy Regionalism introduces the idea of international p...

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought

This book is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social think...

The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 - Enduring Impact

This book analyses the human dimension and aftermath of the emergence of Bangladesh following the war of 1971. It will be of interest to ...

Institutional Racism and Restorative Justice - Oppression and Privilege in America

This new edition includes important accounts and analysis of the political and social upheavals following the Georgy Floyd killing and su...

Jose Carlos Mariategui - Marxism and Critique of Eurocentrism

This volume explores the life, work, and impact of the Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), particularly his political bi...

Displacement, Mobility, and Diversity in Korea - Diaspora Within Homeland

This book examines the transformation and the dynamic reconfiguration of borders within Korea through inter/trans-disciplinary approaches.

South Asia Migration Report 2024 - Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation

South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.

The Indian Farmers' Protest of 2020-2021 - Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity

The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers' protest is one of the longest, biggest (and victorious) The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers'...

Hunter, Peasant, Rebel - Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier

British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of coloni...

Critical Issues in Contemporary China - Decoding Xi Jinping's 'New Era'

The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping's strategies to addre...

UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge - Imagining the Impossible in Chile

This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ...

Legacies of Injustice - The African Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Today's Human Rights

This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and environmental human r...

Race, Nature, and the Environment

This book assembles diverse voices and approaches in geographic thinking on race and racialization during an era of climate crisis, toxic...

Racism and African American Mental Health - Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing

Racism and African American Mental Health examines the psychological impacts of racism within the African American community and offers a...

'Dying' to be White - The Obsession with Fair Skin in India and the Global South

This book examines the phenomenon of colourism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession with fair skin and its...

New Anthropologies of Italy - Politics, History and Culture

Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised...

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...

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...

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...

An Ethnographic Chiefdom - Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969-1989)

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called 'Ethnography and Folklore Studies' was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of stat...

Playing the Hand We Are Dealt - The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life

The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'h...

The Extraordinary in the Mundane - Family and Forms of Community in China

This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of c...

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 ...