Cultural Anthropology

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Brutal Ephemerality

Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe

By Yang Zhan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, China, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A temporal perspective to understanding urban governance and social marginalization in urban Beijing

The Post-Global City

Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

Edited by Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Subjects: African Studies, Urban Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources
Series: African Perspectives

Reimagining technological developments in urban Africa

The Subtlety of the Street

The Discourse of Responsibility

By M Peregrine Balmat
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Applied Linguistics & Linguistics

Mundane words matter

Creative Belonging

The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

By Yanshuo Zhang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: China Understandings Today

An interdisciplinary study on the creative cultures produced by China's ethnic minorities

Peace

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

By Anatol Rapoport
Subjects: Philosophy, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

Co-wives and Calabashes

1st Edition

By Sally Price
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

All in the Family

Childhood and Fictive Kinship in Roman Society

By Gaia Gianni
Subjects: Classical Studies, Roman, History, Historical Methods and Theory, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: Law and Society in the Ancient World

The development of fictive kinship around young Roman children

The Hopi Indians of Old Oraibi

Change and Continuity

By Mischa Titiev
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

Teaching Difficult Topics

Reflections from the Undergraduate Music Classroom

Edited by Olivia R. Lucas & Laura Moore Pruett
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Reflections from college music instructors offering various approaches to inclusive, supportive pedagogy in the classroom

Bateson's Alphabet

The ABC's of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind

By Jacob Smith
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, American Studies

Connecting Bateson’s ecology of mind with the environmental humanities

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

The Currency of Truth

Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era

By Emily H. C. Chua
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Media Studies, Journalism, Political Science, Political Communication
Series: China Understandings Today

Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China

In Search of Tunga

Prosperity, Almighty God, and Lives in Motion in a Malian Provincial Town

By André Chappatte
Subjects: African Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: African Perspectives

The lives of young male Muslim “adventurers” in a Malian town

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

The Resonance of Unseen Things

Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

By Susan Lepselter
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, American Studies

An interdisciplinary study of how conspiracy theories and stories persist and resonate among different Americans

The Politics of the Trail

Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem

By Oded Löwenheim
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Memoir

A history of conflict on display through a morning commute through Jerusalem

Simming

Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Travel, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How simulated experiences—from living history to emergency preparedness drills—create meaning in performance

Cultural Struggles

Performance, Ethnography, Praxis

By Dwight Conquergood
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies

Gathers the essential essays of Dwight Conquergood, performance studies scholar, ethnographer, and activist

Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

By Umi Vaughan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Music, Dance, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

Visualizing Secularism and Religion

Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India

Edited by Alev Cinar & Srirupa Roy
By Maha Yahya
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies

An investigation of the role of religion in the formation of secular-national public spheres in the Middle East and South Asia

Anthrohistory

Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline

Edited by David Cohen, Fernando Coronil, Julie Skurski, Chandra Bhimull, Edward L. Murphy, and Monica Patterson
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, Intellectual History

A volume at the crossroads of History and Anthropology

My Life as a Night Elf Priest

An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

By Bonnie Nardi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Technologies of the Imagination: New Media in Everyday Life

An anthropologist's analysis of one of the world's most popular online world games

Olof the Eskimo Lady

A Biography of an Icelandic Dwarf in America

By Inga Dora Bjornsdottir
Translated by Maria Helga Gudmundsdottir
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Biography, American Studies

The story of an Icelandic dwarf who made a living in 19th-century America posing as an Eskimo

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