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.
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.
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.
This book covers the author’s field experiences as an ethnographer in Central America and an applied anthropologist in the US. It highlights the importance of incorporating ethnography into work tasks across a range of social fields and diverse socio-cultural groups.
Entanglements of Life with the Law
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London’s magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city’s most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
All around the globe, people perform acts of philanthropy. This book presents philanthropy as a universal societal system that deserves a distinctive academic discipline: the science of philanthropology.
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 Limits of the Human Species in the Face of Sustainable Development
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
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.
Survivors of Suicide
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
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.
These essays feature an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians and anthropologists, who address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums and the value of studying arms in order to write richer cultural histories.
Patterns of Inter-ethnic Relations with the Roma in the Carpathian Basin
Based on three decades of anthropological fieldwork, this book argues that Roma-non-Roma coexistence in the Carpathian Basin is always based on opposition. It presents case studies and applied projects to reveal patterns that can be used to fight the exclusion of the Roma today.
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.
Coming To, and Staying In, the Poorest Country in the EU
A scientific study of immigrants in Bulgaria since 1990, this book moves beyond ethnicity to focus on the reasons for migration. It examines their settlement, integration, social networks, and the attitudes and interactions between newcomers and the local population.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”