Cultural and Social Anthropology Courses

If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa

First Edition

Brooke Schwartz Bocast

9780190852146
Paperback
20 June 2023

The first book-length ethnography of African university students

Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction

Carl Abbott

9780197599242
Paperback
01 February 2023

The Body Unburdened: Violence, Emotions, and the New Woman in Turkey

First Edition

Esra Sarioglu

9780197667644
Paperback
29 November 2022

Offers a compelling explanation for the surge of hostility against women in the global era

Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology: A Concise Introduction

Third Edition

Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco

9780197618875
Paperback
07 February 2022

This innovative and celebrated brief cultural anthropology text stimulates students' anthropological imaginations by encouraging them to ask anthropological questions.

Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology: A Concise Introduction

Third Edition

Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco

9780197618882
Looseleaf
07 January 2022

This innovative and celebrated brief cultural anthropology text stimulates students' anthropological imaginations by encouraging them to ask anthropological questions.

The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown

Sharon J. Yoon

9780197517901
Paperback
02 November 2020

This accessible and engaging ethnography investigates how the rise of transnationalism has impacted the social and economic lives of South Koreans searching for wealth and stability in China

Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics in West Africa

Susanna Fioratta

9780197510216
Paperback
13 May 2020

This absorbing ethnography investigates how mobility abroad shapes belonging at home and shows that political and economic motivations to migrate are important--but they are only part of the story

Indebted: An Ethnography of Despair and Resilience in Greece's Second City

Kathryn A. Kozaitis

9780190090142
Paperback
24 January 2020

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

The first and only full-length ethnography of an urban middle-class in Greece, and the global-local articulations of the financial crisis and societal transformations

Burning at Europe's Borders: An Ethnography on the African Migrant Experience in Morocco

Isabella Alexander-Nathani

9780190074647
Paperback
20 January 2020

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

Exposes the world's largest migrant and refugee crises at Europe's southernmost borders in North Africa

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology

Tenth Edition

Kenneth L. Feder

9780190096410
Paperback
23 December 2019

A humorous yet informative and scientific text that helps students to critically debunk archaeological myths

Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network, 10th Anniversary Edition

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

9780190076474
Paperback
29 November 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

The Tenth Anniversary Edition of this brief, engaging ethnography on undocumented Mexican workers in America engages contemporary debates on immigration policy

Marriage After Migration: An Ethnography of Money, Romance, and Gender in Globalizing Mexico

Nora Haenn

9780190056018
Paperback
01 November 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

This compelling ethnographic study shows how migration transformed gender roles in an indigenous Mexican community and how its women shaped globalization without ever leaving home

Serious Youth in Sierra Leone: An Ethnography of Performance and Global Connection

Catherine Bolten

9780190886684
Paperback
01 October 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An ethnography of young men trying to make their way against generational preconceptions in post-war Sierra Leone

Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public, and Critical Readings

Second Edition

Keri Vacanti Brondo

9780190925239
Paperback
16 August 2019

An inclusive, contemporary cultural anthropology reader with an emphasis on public and critical selections

Low Wage in High Tech: An Ethnography of Service Workers in Global India

Kiran Mirchandani, Sanjukta Mukherjee, and Shruti Tambe

9780190868864
Paperback
06 March 2019

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

An ethnography of low-wage service workers on the margins of the "new India" and its multinational technology firms

Care for Sale: An Ethnography of Latin American Domestic and Sex Workers in London

Ana P. Gutiérrez Garza

9780190840655
Paperback
01 November 2018

An intimate ethnography of migrant care work in London

Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy

Minh T. N. Nguyen

9780190692605
Paperback
14 September 2018

Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology

Winner of the 2019 Society for the Anthropology of Work annual book prize An ethnography exploring how migrant laborers in Vietnam remake their lives within the global waste economy

The World of Myth

Third Edition

David A. Leeming

9780190900137
Paperback
13 July 2018

The best-selling anthology of world mythology, updated and revised in a new edition

Field Notes: A Guided Journal for Doing Anthropology

Luis A. Vivanco

9780190642198
Spiral Bound
20 December 2016

A field journal for cultural anthropology and fieldwork courses, integrating learning, guidance, and exercises into one book

Writing in Anthropology: A Brief Guide

Shan-Estelle Brown

9780199381319
Paperback
24 November 2016

The ideal pocket-sized manual for undergraduate anthropology students who want to improve their writing