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Examines the tension between popular and official religion in Europe. This book evokes ethnographic contexts that enable us to see people shaping their religious domain. It provides a theoretical orientation throughout, one that considers how religious discourses are formed by social disciplines and relationships of power and subordination.

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This book examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa's Eastern Cape as a case study. This author examines how the twin processes of memory-making and change have played out in Nelson Mandela Bay. -- .

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This work offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. The Greek island of Kalymnos, where islanders claim to remember meals long past, provides the main setting for a discussion of embodiment, memory and material culture.

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Offering a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food, and memory, this book deals with anthropology's focus on issues of embodiment, memory, and material culture, in relation to transnational migration and the flow of culture. It argues for the crucial role of a simultaneous consideration of food and memory.

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Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.

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The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain.

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The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain.

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The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still freefree to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions.

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The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still freefree to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions.

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Illustrates the complex relationship between gender and research. This work uses concrete examples and draws upon their own gendered experiences by including mini-case studies from research projects in areas such as childhood studies, health care and education.

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This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of scholars specializing in diverse methods used in the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological, and practical implications of conducting research beyond one's national borders. T...

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Provides both a theoretical discussion and a practical application of critical hermeneutics in applied fields of social science.

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A concise methods book, Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures emphasizes that all methods are related as parts of a research design and must be chosen with respect to the larger research objective of anthropology.

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Designed for students and practitioners within the world of research, this text covers such practical topics as: the basic techniques of intervewing, preparing an interview schedule, and using tools such as questioning, prompting and reflecting.

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This work was developed for graduate students, professors, and others involved in research in the social sciences. The work goes through the steps of identifying and stating a problem, formulating and stating an hypothesis, developing and conducting analysis, interpreting results, and drawing conclusions.

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A guide to research in the social and behavioural sciences. It discusses its value, its limitations and its uses. It tackles difficult issues and concepts in a scholarly manner, providing guidance and signposts to further reading. It is intended for those working in a research environment.