A radical reappraisal of the relationship between East and West. This inter-disciplinary volume refutes Euro-centric assumptions, exploring the complex cultural, diplomatic, mercantile, and military encounters between 1453 and 1699.
Ethnicity and Englishness
This book explores nationality, groups and religion through the inner lives of second-generation immigrants in England. It analyses the reasons for prejudice between groups and suggests ways to deal with it.
All Graceful Instruments
This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band’s success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.
The Nomadic Subject
This book explores the image of the Traveller, nomad, migrant, and outsider amid cultural diaspora and globalisation. With a focus on the experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma, these essays resonate with the hybrid narratives of many Western countries today.
Children of the Sun
An ethnographic study of street children in Mexico and Peru. Based on firsthand knowledge gained from living and working with them, this book offers an in-depth look at their subculture, drug use, crime, and the effects on their development.
Irelands of the Mind
This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.
Bodily Inscriptions
This collection of essays explores the body as a site of cultural inscription within popular culture. Topics range from fat and anorexia to tattoos, mastectomy, and gender identity, drawing on perspectives from Queer Theory, Fat, and Disability Studies.
Shifting Positionalities
Shifting Positionalities examines the surveillance of sexual, racial, and ethnic identities in the post-9/11 era. It reveals how individuals and communities utilize techniques of actively resisting the policing of their daily lives across borders.
Anthropology and Development in a Globalized India
This book offers an anthropological and sociological view of sericulture in India, analyzing its emergence as a vital enterprise for rural development and employment. This interdisciplinary study is useful to scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, and Development Studies.
Dimensions of Social Exclusion
This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.
Place, Culture and Community
Hear the voices of the Ottawa Valley. This book reveals a vibrant heritage of fiddling, step dancing, and storytelling forged in hardship, as told by the lumbermen, priests, and families who lived its triumphant history.
Reveries of Home
Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.
Becoming the Other, Being Oneself
For millennia, the Wangazidja people have absorbed cultural influences from across the Indian Ocean. This book examines their strategies for negotiating this encounter, incorporating a variety of influences while remaining “authentic.”
The Question of Integration
What does integration mean? Through ethnographic case studies, this book explores integration in Denmark, a welfare society facing rising nationalism. It shows that integration is not a neutral term, but an ideologically loaded concept for redefining community.
We Are Playing Football
This pioneering study of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea explores how Panapompom villagers’ attempts to recreate global football entangle them in circuits of colonial power, challenging what it means to be “globalised.”
Animals and Science
What does a focus on animals bring to anthropological studies of science? This collection explores the intersections between animals and science, challenging our ideas of what it means to be human and suggesting that our Western knowledge is in need of rethinking.
Dislocating Anthropology?
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of children are AIDS orphans, street children vulnerable to exploitation, or child soldiers. This book identifies the critical problems they face, using an ethnographic approach to understand the plight of children in the world’s poorest region.
The Polyphony of Food
Food is more than a basic need. It satisfies the entire range of human motivations, from feeling safe and secure to affirming cultural identity. It is a vehicle for bonding, love, esteem, and even a means of self-actualization.
Cocoon Communities
This innovative volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities: groups that are highly significant for members, yet voluntary and not binding. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives on communities of students, online mourners, expatriates, and more.