Food Sharing in Human Societies

This book explores why human beings share food with others using a humanistic anthropological approach. This book provides a comparative examination of distinct features and historical changes in food-sharing practices in various hunting-gathering societies, especially in the Inuit. The author considers human nature through various human food-sharing practices. Food sharing is a characteristic …

Challenging Authorities

When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority.…

Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor

This volume examines significant social transformations engendered by the ongoing Syrian conflict in the lives of Syrian Armenians. The authors draw on documentary material and fieldwork carried out in 2013-2019 among Syrian Armenians in Armenian and Lebanese urban settings. The stories of Syrian Armenians reveal how contemporary events are seen to have direct links to the past and to reproduce…

The Legacy of Indigenous Music

This book shares essential insights into how indigenous music has been inherited and preserved under the influence of the dominant mainstream culture in Asia and Europe. It illustrates possible ways of handing down indigenous music in countries and regions with different levels of acceptance toward indigeneity, including Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, t…

The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography

A comprehensive guide to the alternative sociology originating in the work of Dorothy E. Smith, this Handbook not only explores the basic, founding principles of institutional ethnography (IE), but also captures current developments, approaches, and debates. Now widely known as a “sociology for people,” IE offers the tools to uncover the social relations shaping the everyday world in which …

Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences

This anthology examines how immigrants and their US-born children use media to negotiate their American identity and how audiences engage with mediated narratives about the immigrant experience (cultural adjustments, language use, and the like). Where this work diverges from other collections and monographs is the area is its intentional focus on how both first- and second-generation Americans�…

Live Literature

This ground-breaking book explores the phenomenal growth of live literature in the digitalizing 21st century. Wiles asks why literary events appeal and matter to people, and how they can transform the ways in which fiction is received and valued. Readers are immersed in the experience of two contrasting events: a major literary festival and an intimate LGBTQ+ salon. Evocative scenes and observa…

Cosmopolitanism from the Global South

This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves. This ethnography focuses on Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia over several decades particularly, though not exclusively, from Jamaica. Shelene Gomes traces the formation of a Rastafari community located in the multicultural Jamaica Safar…

Fieldwork and the Self

This book presents new perspectives on Southeast Asia using cases from a range of ethnic groups, cultures and histories, written by scholars from different ethnicities, generations, disciplines and scientific traditions. It examines various research trajectories, engaging with epistemological debates on the ‘global’ and ‘local’, on ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’, and the role played…

Jeliya at the Crossroads

This book describes the remarkable culture of jeliya, a musical and verbal art from the Manding region of West Africa. Using an embodied practice as her methodology, the author reveals how she and her music teachers live “in between” local and global cultures. Her journey spans 20 years of fieldwork presented through personal and intimate stories, first as a student of the balafon instrumen…

Ethnography

This volume presents both a historical exploration of ethnography and a thematic discussion of major trends that, over different periods, have oriented and re-oriented research practice. As it overviews ethnography from different geographic and thematic perspectives, it further explores new lines of ethnographic research, including as feminist ethnography and visual research, that uncover non-t…

Research with Arctic Inuit Communities

This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal experiences building relationships with Inuit, working together to design and conduct research, and how this shaped their research approach and outco…

DOING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES

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1-85000-513-2

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vii, 245 p.; 24 cm.

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305.8 Ely d

The stranger-kings of Sikka

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978-906-718-328-4

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xxv, 433 p.; ill.; 25 cm

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305.809 598 6 Lew s

THE IGBO OF SOUTHEAST NIGERIA

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03-052475-X

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xiii,111 p,; ill,; 24 cm

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305.896 Uch i

THE SA'DAN - TORAJA ; A STUDY OF THEIR SOCIAL LIFE AND RELIGION - II - RITUAL…

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90-6765-207-5

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xii, 352 p.: ilus. ; 24 cm

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301.2 Noo s 1986

Uma Politics ; An ethnography of democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 19…

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978-90-6718-324-6

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xvii, 277 p., ill., 24 cm.

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320 Vel u 2008

People of the Source ; the Social and Ceremonial Order of Tana Wai Brama on F…

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90-6765-448-5

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xx, 370 p., ill., 24 cm.

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306.085 Lew p 1988