This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rs death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rs funera...Loe edasi...
Zen and the art of tea-the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life. Ritualized, romantic, and historically rich, the tea ceremony is the creation of something beautiful out of the everyday. Or...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing direc...Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of creativity in research, challenging the conventional boundaries of methodology and practice. Through personal narratives and reflective essays, it sheds new light on the often overlooked detours that shape the research...Loe edasi...
This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work. DoLs are everyday materials that illuminate the organisation of ordinary lives and their...Loe edasi...
This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work. The book will interest students seeking guidance on conducting autoethnographic research, a...Loe edasi...
This Open access book explores the connections between everyday life, institutional politics, and social hierarchies that underlie the disputes between progressive forces and the radical right. It studies the case of Brazil, which is especially sugg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
Textiles have been a highly valued part of many Indigenous societies across the world and over millennia. This pathbreaking book examines the large woven ceremonial cloths known as pua kumbu, long associated with the Iban peoples of the i...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ethnogenesis, their integration in host societies and their bonding in the Indian diaspora of Girmitiyas— a population of over 1.3 million British-Indian indentured labourers recruited in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science...Loe edasi...
This book explores the emotional landscapes shaped by mobility, transience, and wandering. Building on classical and contemporary sociological thoughtfrom Ibn Khaldun and Marx-Engels to Bauman and Goffmanit looks at the ambivalent emotions experienc...Loe edasi...
The debate over the relative merits of adopting functional universal psychological principles, processes, and constructs (etics) versus particular structural idiosyncratic characteristics and behaviors distinct to specific cultural groups (emics) ha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009685023)
The debate over the relative merits of adopting functional universal psychological principles, processes, and constructs (etics) versus particular structural idiosyncratic characteristics and behaviors distinct to specific cultural groups (emics) ha...Loe edasi...
Notes from the EUs Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. Along the Belarus–Poland frontier, it shows how Kremlin “migration engine...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487564032)
Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Stockholms feminist activist community, this book explores how anxiety is produced and practiced among activists, tracing its roots to the complex translation of intersectionality from theory to...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the experiences of South Asia’s diaspora—originating from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Afghanistan—which constitutes one of the world’s largest and most globally d...Loe edasi...
This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. This book was origina...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033158)
In The Business of Racism, Ian Carrillo draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. In The Business of Ra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478029700)
In The Business of Racism, Ian Carrillo draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. In The Business of Ra...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into intersections of identities in complex societies, which reproduce and cross symbolic boundaries and form as well as challenge power relations. The volume offers both descriptive and analytical contributions with evidence-base...Loe edasi...
This book introduces the Neapolitan femminielli, their customs and practices through essays originally published in Italian and newly translated into English. Scholars and students of Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Gender Studies, History, P...Loe edasi...
From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world a moving and enchanting (Guardian) story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways....Loe edasi...
This book examines how older adults with physical disabilities living at home develop dietary resilience strategies to maintain independence, agency, and dignity in later life. Drawing on extensive theoretical literature and rich qualitative researc...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of ou...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens,...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens,...Loe edasi...
This edited volume offers a bold reimagining of peace studies by placing practice and not just theory, at the center of academic inquiry. It challenges conventional disciplinary boundaries to spotlight peace as an active, lived process ra...Loe edasi...
This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the production of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvres multifaceted and reflexive conceptualisation of space allows for a macro analysis that locates the camp within the global st...Loe edasi...
This book examines some of the social dimensions of Indian society and the challenges therein. It explores various themes, including the rules and norms governing people’s lives, the rhythm of village life, mythology and folk narratives, as well a...Loe edasi...
Examining how creative decision-making is fundamentally tied to our values and modes of thinking in an era of accelerating change and deepening challenges, this book offers a timely reminder that design can be a powerful force for renewal, when gr...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing direc...Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of creativity in research, challenging the conventional boundaries of methodology and practice. Through personal narratives and reflective essays, it sheds new light on the often overlooked detours that shape the research...Loe edasi...
This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work. DoLs are everyday materials that illuminate the organisation of ordinary lives and their...Loe edasi...
This book presents Documents of Life (DoLs) as a research framework, offering both scholarly insight and practical guidance for conducting this kind of work. The book will interest students seeking guidance on conducting autoethnographic research, a...Loe edasi...
This Open access book explores the connections between everyday life, institutional politics, and social hierarchies that underlie the disputes between progressive forces and the radical right. It studies the case of Brazil, which is especially sugg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
Textiles have been a highly valued part of many Indigenous societies across the world and over millennia. This pathbreaking book examines the large woven ceremonial cloths known as pua kumbu, long associated with the Iban peoples of the i...Loe edasi...
Nikoli A. Attai, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt...
Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the C...Loe edasi...
Nikoli A. Attai, Nikoli A. Attai, Sue Ann Barratt, Judy Grant, Rosamond S King, Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Angelique V Nixon, Kai Barratt, Ryan Persadie, Sue Ann Barratt...
Sari: Critical Caribbean Studies
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978846616)
Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the C...Loe edasi...
This book explores the ethnogenesis, their integration in host societies and their bonding in the Indian diaspora of Girmitiyas— a population of over 1.3 million British-Indian indentured labourers recruited in the nineteenth and twentieth centuri...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science...Loe edasi...
This book explores the emotional landscapes shaped by mobility, transience, and wandering. Building on classical and contemporary sociological thoughtfrom Ibn Khaldun and Marx-Engels to Bauman and Goffmanit looks at the ambivalent emotions experienc...Loe edasi...
The debate over the relative merits of adopting functional universal psychological principles, processes, and constructs (etics) versus particular structural idiosyncratic characteristics and behaviors distinct to specific cultural groups (emics) ha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009685023)
The debate over the relative merits of adopting functional universal psychological principles, processes, and constructs (etics) versus particular structural idiosyncratic characteristics and behaviors distinct to specific cultural groups (emics) ha...Loe edasi...
Notes from the EUs Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. Along the Belarus–Poland frontier, it shows how Kremlin “migration engine...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487564032)
Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Stockholms feminist activist community, this book explores how anxiety is produced and practiced among activists, tracing its roots to the complex translation of intersectionality from theory to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Calendar, Kirjastus: Andrews McMeel Publishing, ISBN-13: 9798881607227)
Each month showcases a clever, comical cartoon on the top half of the spread highlighting one or more of the months fabulous holidays. AND every day presents a super-duper holiday, such as January 9--Static Electricity Day, April 7--No Housework Da...Loe edasi...
This book delves into the experiences of South Asia’s diaspora—originating from countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Afghanistan—which constitutes one of the world’s largest and most globally d...Loe edasi...
This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. This book was origina...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033158)
In The Business of Racism, Ian Carrillo draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. In The Business of Ra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478029700)
In The Business of Racism, Ian Carrillo draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. In The Business of Ra...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into intersections of identities in complex societies, which reproduce and cross symbolic boundaries and form as well as challenge power relations. The volume offers both descriptive and analytical contributions with evidence-base...Loe edasi...
This book introduces the Neapolitan femminielli, their customs and practices through essays originally published in Italian and newly translated into English. Scholars and students of Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, Gender Studies, History, P...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501785320)
Colonial Negatives concerns early photography in colonial Morocco, which Patricia Goldsworthy frames as a study in French, as well as Moroccan and Jewish history. This book highlights processes of constant negotiation between French and Moroccans ab...Loe edasi...
From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world a moving and enchanting (Guardian) story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035301065)
This insightful Research Handbook provides an in-depth survey of global historical sociology. Expert contributors explore this rich, interdisciplinary field, which sits at the crossroads between history, sociology, and other social sciences including...Loe edasi...
Joseph Odùmósù, Michael Oládèjo Afoláyan, Helen Tilley
Sari: Yorùbá Worlds
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299351007)
The first book-length study of YorÙbÁ therapeutics, encompassing thousands of remedies for more than 160 different ailments, ÌwÉ ÌwÒsÀn (Book of Healing) was originally published in 1910 by ÌjbÚ healer, politician, and public intellectual Joseph OdÙ...Loe edasi...
This book examines how older adults with physical disabilities living at home develop dietary resilience strategies to maintain independence, agency, and dignity in later life. Drawing on extensive theoretical literature and rich qualitative researc...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of ou...Loe edasi...
Live Life Like a Festival is more than a book — its an invitation.This vibrant 240-page coffee-table workbook celebrates 30 years of LEAF Global Arts, blending soulful stories, rare archival photos, creative prompts, and whimsical...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081441)
A study of the Big Drum dance rite on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, this book introduces 120 ceremonial song texts and dances that reflect African-Caribbean religion as practiced by enslaved people in the early 1700s as well as the Carriacou reli...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens,...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens,...Loe edasi...
This edited volume offers a bold reimagining of peace studies by placing practice and not just theory, at the center of academic inquiry. It challenges conventional disciplinary boundaries to spotlight peace as an active, lived process ra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880702565)
Can food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? Nourishing Life reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating became both a popular phenomenon and a matter of...Loe edasi...
This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the production of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvres multifaceted and reflexive conceptualisation of space allows for a macro analysis that locates the camp within the global st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: HAU, ISBN-13: 9781914363382)
Why do humans live with gods, spirits, and ancestors? Metapersons reveals how transcendence is not an exception, but a fundamental feature of life. Metapersons begins from a simple yet striking observation: across the world, people live i...Loe edasi...
This book examines some of the social dimensions of Indian society and the challenges therein. It explores various themes, including the rules and norms governing people’s lives, the rhythm of village life, mythology and folk narratives, as well a...Loe edasi...
Examining how creative decision-making is fundamentally tied to our values and modes of thinking in an era of accelerating change and deepening challenges, this book offers a timely reminder that design can be a powerful force for renewal, when gr...Loe edasi...
Examining how creative decision-making is fundamentally tied to our values and modes of thinking in an era of accelerating change and deepening challenges, this book offers a timely reminder that design can be a powerful force for renewal, when gr...Loe edasi...
Chinese culture, shaped by thousands of years of history and evolution, has woven a rich tapestry of traditions, beliefs, and practices across this vast land. It’ s a mesmerizing cultural maze— one that sparks endless curiosit...Loe edasi...
Utilizing archaeological, archival, and visual sources, this book reconsiders tobacco and smoking in the 17th-century Puritan colonies in the Atlantic Northeast through the lens of religious beliefs and medical care. Utilizing archaeolo...Loe edasi...
This book explores how food shapes urban identity, through people and practices, and reflects the cultural and social experiences of urban gastronomy. This book explores how food shapes urban identity, through people and practices,...Loe edasi...
An ethnography of Kaapse klopse, the Carnival practice of South Africa, and examination of how participants claim and perform racial identity through music, dance, and parade-- The first in-depth study of Kaapse klopse, a carnival tra...Loe edasi...
