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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

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...

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 Book of Hungarikums

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

Studies in the History and Lamguage of the Sarmatians

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 Australia

Soviet ethnography: Main trends

Ethnology

Europa et Hungaria: Congressus ethnographicus in Hungaria

Spotlight on Britain - second edition

Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkie Pastoral Nomads

The Csángó

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Emerging Infections - Three Epidemiological Transitions from Prehistory to the Present

This accessible textbook provides the first comprehensive synthesis of both the societal and environmental drivers of emerging infectious...

Beothuk - How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integr...

La chance - Uncertainty, Knowledge Production and Gameplay among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates con...

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...

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...

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...

Matatu Work - Gender, Labor, and Mobility in Nairobi

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu.

Becoming Little Shell - A Landless Indian's Journey Home

“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”—David Treuer, author of The Heart...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Decolonizing African Studies - Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice

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...

Limits of Life - Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience

New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. New techno-social c...