On the Origin of Tourist Experiences

Drawing on four millennia of travel narratives, this book examines the enduring fascination with travel from philosophical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. It argues that, despite its contested impacts, tourism reflects a persistent human impulse rooted in the long history of journe...

Decolonizing Ourselves

Tracing a life shaped by movement between cultures, this book combines autoethnography and analysis of modern colonialism to examine inequality across contexts. It reflects on personal and structural change, inviting readers to consider their own positions within enduring systems of injustice.

Inplacement

Bringing together international theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, this volume examines individuals within socio-cultural contexts shaped by global crises. Drawing on Covid-19 lockdown experiences, it considers in-placement, situates epidemics within the risk field, and questions whether ...

The Origins of Cultural Customs

Examining the origins of a wide variety of cultural conventions, including calendar customs, folklore, annual holidays, and ethnic identity, this work uses a critical lens to common perceptions and misconceptions.

Rebel Valley

Focusing on the No TAV movement in Italy’s Valsusa, this book examines long-term resistance to infrastructure development. Drawing on anthropology, political theory, and geography, it situates territorial struggles across Europe and argues for territorio as a basis for alternative political futures.

Anthropological Handbook of Mobility

The Anthropological Handbook of Mobility takes stock of the dispersed body of anthropological work on mobilities, as both an object of study and an analytical lens. From an anthropological point of view, this guide provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to mobility studies for stude...

William Morris and John Ruskin

Includes articles first published in The Journal of William Morris Studies and new pieces written for this book. Subjects include promotion of craft skills and meaningful work, division of labour, education, environment, art and architecture and the contrasts between Ruskin’s (1819-1900) Tory pat...

The Folklore of Devon

Devon has a long and rich folkloric heritage which has been extensively collected over many years, but never before drawn together into one serious study. This book consolidates more than a century of research by eminent Devon folklorists into one valuable volume.

Narratives And Spaces

This book examines how photography, the railroad, electricity, space flight and the computer became central, yet often contradictory, parts of the way Americans construct and narrate their culture. This is a significant contribution to American cultural history, and like David Nye's previous book...

The Folklore of Cornwall

Piskies, mermaids, giants, and a revenant bridegroom: the stuff of legend. In the hands of skilled storytellers – the famed droll tellers of Cornwall – the result was magical. Considered in the context of narratives throughout Northern Europe, enchantment can be understood as well as enjoyed in t...

Materiality of Air

Exploring air, airborne phenomena and elemental representation, this book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outline clear solutions to these challenges.

Italian Cityscapes

This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture. It shows how major demographic movements and cultural shifts threw into relief new conceptions of the city in which ...

Penal Discipline, Reformatory Projects And The English Prison Commission, 1895-1939

In the early 1890s there was a prolonged criticism of conditions in English prisons and in 1895 new policies of relaxation of severity and commitment to individual reformation were recommended by the Gladstone Committee on prisons. This study examines the ideological foundations and the operation...

Cornish Studies Volume 17

The seventeenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Exeter in Roman Times

In its final form, Roman Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) was a fine walled city nearly 100 acres in extent and entered by four gates. Streets were fronted by shops and houses built of stone or half-timbered. In the centre were public buildings, the Forum and the Baths. This booklet tries to explain how...

New Arabian Studies Volume 5

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.

The Boggart Sourcebook

This volume provides the three corpora on which the associated monograph The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect is based. Offering detailed insights into a ground-breaking research method, it will be of particular interest to folklorists, historians and dialect scholars.

Arthurian Sites In The West

A completely new, revised and enlarged edition of this classic survey of monuments in South-West England associated with the stories of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table: the castle of Tintagel, the great hill-fort of Cadbury in south Somerset, the ruined abbey at Glastonbury and Castle ...

New Directions In Celtic Studies

The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings t...

The Radiant Hour

This book of interdisciplinary essays explores how youth has been represented in American culture. The book focuses on familiar literary, film and television texts set within a framework of ideas drawn from cultural and social theory, presenting innovative and challenging analyses of new and clas...

Representing Others

Representing Others examines a diverse range of cultural forms in which white novelists, sculptors, diarists, photographers, ethnographers, travel writers and filmmakers have depicted Native American, African, Pacific and Australian Aboriginal peoples.

Cornish Studies Volume 12

The twelfth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Turkish Drama Serials

Examines the reach and reception of Turkish drama serials in the Middle East and Latin America, exploring what it is that makes Turkish television so successful as entertainment in places as diverse as Qatar, Chile and Israel.

New Arabian Studies Volume 1

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.

New Arabian Studies Volume 6

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.

The South-West and the Sea

This volume collects the papers given at a seminar concerning the maritime history of the South-West of England, which took place at Dartington Hall in October 1967

New Arabian Studies Volume 4

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.

Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language

This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations.

William Morris

This well illustrated book celebrates every aspect of the wide-ranging achievements of William Morris - writer, designer, cultural critic, revolutionary socialist - with particular emphasis on their relevance to our own times. The book makes available up-to-date Morris scholarship in accessible f...

New Arabian Studies Volume 2

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.

Cornish Studies Volume 10

The tenth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Cornish Studies Volume 13

The thirteenth volume in this acclaimed paperback series includes articles on Cornish emigration, Cornish literature, the novelist Virginia Woolf, the poet Jack Clemo, Cornish mining history, Cornish folklore, the medieval Cornish-language miracle plays, and William Scawen: the seventeenth-centur...

Algerian Women and Diasporic Experience

This book uses the narratives of women who fled Algeria in the 1990s—known as the ‘Black Decade’—to offer a more intimate understanding of the violence women face in times of conflict, and the function of diasporic networks in rebuilding their lives. 

New Arabian Studies Volume 3

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion.

Cornish Studies Volume 9

The ninth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Exeter Excavations: the Guildhall Site

Redevelopment of this open space in the middle of Exeter gave archaeologists an opportunity to explore the earliest settlement. Did it have its origin as a major Roman fort? There is little evidence of occupation before the Roman conquest but substantial evidence from the first century AD. 

Cornish Studies Volume 11

The eleventh volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation.

Roman Gold from Tresminas (Portugal)

Reconstruction at Tresminas in Portugal of Roman mining activities in a primary deposit during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD has been made possible thanks to the excellent preservation of ancient. This is an important contribution to the economic history of ancient Greece and Rome, the archaeology...

Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora (Modern Greek)

Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens’s far-flung contacts. This guide is a useful aid to the identification of common Greek and Roman coinage. The new edition has been updated with the latest discoveries in the A...

China and Sustainable Development in Latin America

China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for ...

Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature

This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.

Life Chances, Education and Social Movements

‘Life Chances, Education and Social Movements’ dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf’s work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical...

Georgian Women on the Move

The lives of Georgian women who began migrating to Greece in the early 1990s have largely remained invisible. Georgian Women on the Move offers an intimate account of these Soviet-educated care-workers in Thessaloniki during 2015, amid Greece’s economic crisis. Through their everyday practices of...

Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region

In this comprehensive reassessment of post-contact archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson highlight the diversity and breadth of the area’s archaeological sites and the innovative findings they offer. In doing so, they highlight archaeology’s impl...

Small Adults or Big Kids?

This book explores the meaning of adolescence, a critical period of the life course, through the analysis of material culture, historical documents, skeletal remains, isotope analysis, and other lines of evidence. By considering the implications for archaeologists and biological anthropologists, ...

Prophetic Histories

Embracing Change in Coastal Sri Lanka

First Queer Voices from Thailand

This is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s highly regarded pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson’s fascinating narrative is “Uncle Go”, which was the pen name of a popular magazine editor who, despit...

Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness

China’s new globalism plays out as much in the lives of ordinary workers who shoulder the task of implementing infrastructure projects in the world as in the upper echelons of power. Through unprecedented ethnographic research among Chinese road builders in Ethiopia, Miriam Driessen finds that th...

Decolonial Media Imaginaries

A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. DMI pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and genera...

Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism

This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage o...

The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum III

This third volume about the Cretan Collection in the Penn Museum presents the Minoan metal artifacts. They provide primary evidence for the early history of metallurgy in southeastern Europe during the second millennium B.C. The assemblage is remarkable for the light its objects shed on the histo...

Media, Monarchy and Power

Is obsession with the Royal Family in Britain a fact of culture or an illusion of media culture? What interest do the European media display in their royal families? Does twenty-first century monarchy remain a political and ideological force - or is it just an economic commodity? Media, Monarchy ...

Advertising and Identity in Europe

As European business ties develop, how are they reflected in the way companies promote themselves? As our sense of group identity is broken down by global communications technologies, how do adverts target mass audiences? This volume is the first structured assessment of advertising's impact, in ...

Being Human

This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel.... Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite exponential advances in information production, we do not appear to know much either. This book is a guide for everyone who feels understandably perp...

Body Parts on Planet Slum

This book focuses on the cultural and gender dimensions of informal survivalism. It provides a fascinating insight into women’s use of soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.

Land of Sikyon

Ancient Sikyon, in the northeastern Peloponnese, was a major player on the Mediterranean stage, especially in the Archaic and Hellenistic periods. This comprehensive study combines a discussion of the geological and historical background with the results of original research based on many years o...

Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China

Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule.

The Anthem Companion to Robert N. Bellah

‘The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah’ is the first major collection of writings on the life and work of one of the foremost twentieth-century sociologists of religion.

Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 92 (2021)

Hebrew Union College Annual is the journal of the Hebrew Union College. Published annually, it is an anthology of scholarly articles concerning Jewish history, religion and culture from antiquity to the present.

War and Peace

The book explores the role of religion in war and peace through nine original contributions that examine a range of case studies from different historical periods. Religion, the volume suggests, is typically not the cause of human conflict, but rather the product of actions by the state and the l...

Experiencing Globalization

This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes religion through lived experience and reveals how religious phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.

The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability

This book finds short- and long-term solutions to twenty-first century global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for introducing sustainability around the world.

The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick

The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.

The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton

Robert K. Merton (RKM) was an important figure in the mid-nineteenth development of sociology in terms of social theory, methodology and several substantive areas key to understanding modern societies – the sociologies of science, media, professions and bureaucracy. This book reveals the differen...

The Anthem Companion to Peter Berger

Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was among the most prominent sociologists of the past half-century. He co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, considered to be a modern classic of social science. His work on social theory, the sociology of religion, third-world developme...

The Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman

The purpose of the volume—as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press “Companion to Sociology” series—is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued appeal and relevance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines. The book engages with s...

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel

The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel brings together leading scholars and upcoming researchers in contemporary ethnomethodology to bring out the experimental character of Garfinkel’s legacy in the social sciences and beyond. Therefore, the Companion takes its cue from Garfinkel’s noted “breac...

The Anthem Companion to David Ricardo

With contributions from authorities on four continents, this edited volume provides a comprehensive survey of the life and work of David Ricardo (1772–1823), a major contributor to the British classical school of political economy. After an editorial introduction that sets Ricardo’s work in the e...

De-centering queer theory

This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity

‘Social Thought and Rival Claims to the Moral Ideal of Dignity’ deals with the legacy from the classical literature of philosophy and sociology of the theorization of the idea and ideal of dignity, which is explored in the wider context of morality, ethics and the basis of the normative order.

The Creativity Hoax

We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. ‘The Creativity Hoax’ argues that the ‘call to creativity’ is designed to make workers more labile, agile and m...

The Anthem Companion to Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron is an exceptional figure among twentieth-century sociological and political thinkers. The book focuses on the sociological work of this author of the century, who analyzed his age both in its grand-scale political and socio-economic traits and in the complex social and political rami...

Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives

‘Bauman, Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives’ summarizes and compares the sociological works of three contemporary authors insofar as they deal with the themes of modernity and its alternatives. These alternatives are either deemed to be possible or actually experienced, whether hi...

The sound of difference

The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.