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Routledge Studies in Anthropology Traveling Spirits: Migrants Markets and Mobilities (Paperback)

Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants activities. However due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation transnational social practices including... more

California Series in Public Anthropology: When I Wear My Alligator Boots : Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands (Series #33) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the war on drugs despite... more

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths Historical Oddities and Scientific Curiosities (Paperback)

A treasury of astonishing mythic marvels--and the surprising truths behind them Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history science archaeology anthropology and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific... more

Contemporary Liminality Walling Boundaries and Liminality: A Political Anthropology of Transformations (Hardcover)

Contemporary challenges related to walls borders and encirclement such as migration integration and endemic historical conflicts can only be understood properly from a long-term perspective. This book seeks to go beyond conventional definitions of... more

Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration Displacement and Social Change: Non-Migration Amidst Zimbabwe’s Economic Meltdown (Hardcover)

This book addresses the paradox of non-migration in the context of a protracted economic unrest. Rose Jaji discusses how individual subjectivities mediate macroeconomic factors in Zimbabwe and critiques simplistic explanations of non-migration... more

Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem (Paperback)

An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives about Jerusalem s social history. Overlooking the Border: Narratives of Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. The... more

Oxford Handbooks The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology (Hardcover)

This volume explores 15 000 years of indigenous human history on the North American continent drawing on the latest archaeological theories time-honored methodologies and rich datasets. From the Arctic south to the Mexican border and east to the... more

Pre-Owned The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies Borders Biopolitics (Paperback 9780520289017) by Susan Brownell Niko Besnier Thomas F. Carter

9780520289017. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Pages: 336. Trade paperback (US). 336 p. 21 b-w halftones 1 line art. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Few activities bring together physicality emotions politics money and... more

The Mother Town: Civic Ritual Symbol and Experience in the Borders of Scotland (Hardcover)

Horses with riders trailed by foot processionals silver bands and pipe bands furling medieval banners lavish costumes and singers and actors--the Common Riding is an elaborate little-studied ritual phenomenon of the border towns of Scotland. In this... more

Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology: Companion to Border Studies (Hardcover)

A Companion to Border Studies Taking into consideration all aspects this book has a very important role in the professional literature of border studies. Cross-Border Review Yearbook of the European Institute Summing Up: Highly recommended.... more

Motherhood Across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York (Paperback)

Winner 2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award given by the Ethnography in Education Research Forum Winner 2019 Outstanding Book Award given by the Council on Anthropology and Education The stories of Mexican migrant women who parent from... more

Studies in Rhetoric and Culture: Economic Persuasions (Paperback)

The volume features contributions from an impressive array of scholars operating at the borders between anthropology sociology and economics and offers much to interest scholars from each of these disciplines. JRAI As the transition from socialism... more

Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader (Paperback)

This anthology offers ethnographies from classical anthropology and the more familiar settings of the agrarian Midwest the Mexican border the Rust Belt and the frontiers of the recent economic meltdown. Editors E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem... more

Contemporary Anthropology of Religion: Spirits Without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age (Paperback)

Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam s Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back... more

In the Valley of the Kauravas: A Divine Kingdom in the Western Himalaya (Hardcover)

The isolated valleys of Rawain in the Western Himalaya are ruled by local gods who control the weather provide justice and regularly travel through their territories to mark their borders and to ward off incursions by rival gods. These identified... more

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border (Hardcover)

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842 The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient queendom on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts this... more

Studies on Ethnic Groups in China In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border (Paperback)

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842 The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient queendom on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts this... more

Anthropology Culture and Society: Deepening Divides : How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World (Hardcover)

A non-Eurocentric interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories. more

Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology: Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space Borders and Migration (Hardcover)

Provides a unique glocal perspective in that the migration of different ethnic religious and racial groups presents opportunities for new thinking about diversity in urban contests Addresses often-neglected questions pertaining to how cities develop... more

Pre-Owned Deepening Divides: How Physical Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World (Hardcover 9780745340425) by Didier Fassin

9780745340425. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Pages: 272. Library binding. 272 p. Anthropology Culture and Society . 1 b&w figure. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. At a glance borders and boundaries may seem synonymous. But... more

Pre-Owned Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossing Transformations (Hardcover 9780857285126) by Ananta Kumar Giri John Clammer

9780857285126. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Pages: 380. 380 p. Key Issues in Modern Sociology . Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Philosophy and Anthropology: Border Crossings and Transformations is an innovative and... more