Cultural Anthropology

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

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.

Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume II: Political, Social & Ecological Issues

Beverley Diamond and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

9780197517567
Paperback
09 March 2021

Transforming Ethnomusicology aims to deepen and broaden dialogues about social engagement within the discipline of ethnomusicology.

Transforming Ethnomusicology Volume I: Methodologies, Institutional Structures, and Policies

Beverley Diamond and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

9780197517611
Paperback
09 March 2021

Transforming Ethnomusicology aims to deepen and broaden dialogues about social engagement within the discipline of ethnomusicology.

Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity

Third Edition

Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco

9780197522929
Paperback
17 November 2020

The third edition of this innovative and celebrated text employs a questions-based approach, emphasizes critical thinking and active learning, and demonstrates how cultural anthropology is relevant in today's world

Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity

Third Edition

Robert L. Welsch and Luis A. Vivanco

9780197522936
Looseleaf
17 November 2020

The third edition of this innovative and celebrated text employs a questions-based approach, emphasizes critical thinking and active learning, and demonstrates how cultural anthropology is relevant in today's world

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

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

Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology

Seventh Edition

Robert H. Lavenda and Emily A. Schultz

9780190924751
Paperback
14 March 2019

The only brief cultural anthropology text specifically designed to prepare students to read ethnography more effectively and with greater understanding

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

Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition

Tenth Edition

Emily A. Schultz and Robert H. Lavenda

9780190620684
Paperback
18 January 2017

This best-selling cultural anthropology text holistically communicates the relevancy of ethnographic research to undergraduate students

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