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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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Matter Out of Place - Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality

"Anthropologists often use 'pollution' to refer to social and individual challenges to a cultural idea of purity, which may be seen in te...

Subject Lessons - Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways. It is a way to l...

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...

Tactical Citizenships - Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus

The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duti...

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Entrepreneurship - Recentering the Voices of Marginalized Communities in Africa

Framed within the decolonization debate, this book centers the voices of indigenous youth in marginalized communities, analyzes the limit...

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...

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...

Policing Black Bodies in the 21st Century

In Ferguson and many other American communities, social media has raised the visibility of police actions, leading to protests and social...

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 ...

Black Knights - Arabic Epic and the Making of Medieval Race

"Black Knights is the first book to offer a broad, theoretically grounded exploration of race in the creative literature of the Islamic M...

Distancing the Past - Racism as History in South African Schools

Chana Teeger examines how young South Africans confront their country's racist apartheid past in high school history lessons, vividly chr...

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...

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...

Indigenous Intellectual Property - An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation

This book examines Indigenous intellectual property as a legal matter rooted in and operating within distinct Indigenous legal frameworks.

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

Black Arsenal

A celebration in essays and photography of the contribution of Arsenal football club to Black British cultural history

We Now Belong to Ourselves - J.L. Edmonds, The Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find oppor...

Tempted to Taste It

Take your home cooking to the next level with vegan and non-vegan recipes using simple ingredients that make bold impressions.

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...

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...

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'...

Excited Delirium - Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines the emergence of “excited delirium syndrome” in the 1980s, a fabricated medical diagnosis used to justi...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...