Afghan society has been marked in a lasting way by war and the exodus of part of its population. While many have emigrated to countries across the world ...

Miscarriage is a significant women's health issue. Research has consistently shown that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage. This collected volume ...

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how ...

Ethnography in the Raw describes the author's encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife's friends and acquaintances ...

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic ...

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from ...

With a focus on historic sites, this volume explores the recent history of non- heteronormative Americans from the early twentieth century onward and ...

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and what the impact of this morality ...

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume ...

Understudied relative to other forms of intentional community, and under-recognized in policy-making circles, urban cohousing communities situate wellbeing ...