Social & Cultural Anthropology

This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers..

The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. The book covers historical events and current issues...

The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. The book covers historical events and current issues...

This book makes both a substantive and theoretical contribution to the understanding of the profound, parallel developments of family separation and transnational communication that are shaping our contemporary worlds...

This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures...

This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures...

This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region. Focusing on the interaction between "race" and culture, especially in terms of visibility and self-defined identity; and..

The distinction between mundane practice and/or competences on the one hand and a form of consciousness or moral aspiration on the other hand, which recurs in scholarly discussions of cosmopolitanism is rendered ambiguous when applied to actual cases, ‘on the ground’. This book was originally publis..

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums; this book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum and museum collections in postcolonial Europe._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Africa and Black Diaspora..

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums; this book examines the contemporary debate surrounding the museum and museum collections in postcolonial Europe._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Africa and Black Diaspora: An I..

This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and..

This book examines how ideas about nature and ethics overlap and separate across cultural, species, geographic, and moral boundaries. It compares the ways in which nature and ideas of naturalness pervade all aspects of people’s lives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnos...