Anthropological Horizons

Exploring the experience of living with spirits in everyday life and over a lifetime, Cohabiting with Spirits recounts the lives of a married couple and their cohabitation with various spirits that come to possess them.

Engaging classic anthropological theory, Relative Strangers offers a fresh perspective on kinship in Palestine by focusing on Romani families of the region.

This book analyses the everyday conversations of children in eastern Tibet (contemporary People's Republic of China) to demonstrate how they use language to navigate the social and cultural changes caused by rural to urban migration.

Featuring a community of Spanish labour migrants in France who were born at the time of Spain’s civil war and came of age during General Francisco Ferdinand’s dictatorship, Untold Stories reveals how legacies of authoritarianism circulate in the lives of older adults.

A richly crafted ethnography, Moving Words reveals how Berlin’s status as a global city is tightly bound up with its reputation as a cosmopolitan capital for the arts.

Truly Human explores the lifeworlds, ethics, and political strategies of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan amid colonialism, geopolitical tensions, and internal political conflicts.

Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public

Without the State traces the transformation of the citizen-state relationship during and after the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine.

Exemplary Life explores the world of the followers of Our Lady of Soufanieh in order to understand the role of exemplarity in social and religious life.

Shadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.

This ethnography considers how spirit mediums interactively create self-knowledge out of interpersonal suspicion in the racially and religious diverse Caribbean country of Suriname.

This book provides the first detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study looking at changes in LGBT activism in Singapore.

Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relations and interactions between objects and subjects and investigates how these relations and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences.

This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.

Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how Sufi women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership.

Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.