A significant advance in the field of Chinese environmental anthropology, the outstanding scholars in this volume provide a unique and much needed contribution to the scholarship on China and the environment.
City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.
Community-based wildlife conservation is promoted as a win-win solution for wildlife and people that protects biodiversity while improving the economic status of communities living among wildlife. This book, based on mixed-method anthropological research conducted in Samburu County, Kenya, demonstrates that, counter to simple narratives promising ......
Drawing on extensive firsthand experience of face-to-face meetings between patients and healthcare practitioners, Constructing Patienthood is the first book-length work dedicated to situating limited-English-speaking patients on equal footing with their interlocutors as essential partners in the process of meaning-making. Afaf Ali Nash builds on ......
An interdisciplinary investigation into how kinship today is desired, pursued, produced, transformed, and regulated in a world characterized by increased (im)mobility and travel of people, bodies, reproductive substances, knowledge, and expertise.
An interdisciplinary investigation into how kinship today is desired, pursued, produced, transformed, and regulated in a world characterized by increased (im)mobility and travel of people, bodies, reproductive substances, knowledge, and expertise.
This book explores the political, economic, social, and environmental health relations and politics of the global tech and electronics industry. Peter Little argues that, in the digital age, we need greater synthesis of political ecology, ethnography, and technocapital critique.
Using a set of case studies conducted in the United States, China, India, Nigeria, and Cambodia, Maryann McCabe and Elizabeth K. Briody examine cultural change in everyday life, or more specifically, the process of human perception and action in the instigation of change.
Cannabis, Cocaine, and the Economic Foundations of Suburban Drug Culture
In Dealing with Privilege, David Crawford argues that white, middle-class dealers are unlikely to suffer the enforcement of drug laws and that, contrary to media portrayals, suburban drug sales are not oriented primarily toward making money but at making friends and having fun.
A collection of short essays and stories, this book primarily focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Accompanied by the brilliant art of Salomon Huerta, the book re-frames, defends, and humanizes los de abajo (those on the bottom).
This workbook contains a series of professional exercises for students who want to use their training in anthropology to develop a career in anthropology and other fields.
Designing an Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises, 2E, provides undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to identify their career goals and follow through on them. Throughout the text, the authors take a broad perspective to encourage readers to imagine an evolving anthropology career as a lifetime endeavor.
The book combines cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, and the study of psychosomatic illness to present the information on the dissociative process. Experts in each of these fields bring their knowledge on the unique role that dissociation plays in moderating social and psychological effects on the body.
The book highlights opportunities for methodological innovation, explicates and challenges the effects of educational policies and practices, and interrogates and theorizes about educational structures, policies, and experiences.
The book highlights opportunities for methodological innovation, explicates and challenges the effects of educational policies and practices, and interrogates and theorizes about educational structures, policies, and experiences.
