People as Protection explores civilian self-protection in Nigeria’s struggle to overcome Boko Haram, focusing on the Civilian Joint Task Force, a grassroots response to the insurgency. Merging emotional insight and cultural analysis, it uncovers how hope, patriotism, and community drove ordinary citizens to confront violence and reclaim dignity.
Tracing social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees, Sovereignty in Exile reveals the dynamics of a postcolonial liberation movement that has endured for decades in the deserts of North Africa while trying to bring about the revolutionary transformation of a society which identifies with a Bedouin past.
Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
Zerrin Özlem Biner
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828634
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
States of Dispossession highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds remember, experience, and live with the remains of a violence that is still unfolding.
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse and Christina L. Davis
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512826838
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
Landscapes of Law shows that assertions of national culture are not always a retreat from globalism but a way of managing the contested zone between borderless capital and bordered states. A roster of international, interdisciplinary contributors offer innovative, ethnographic analyses of the ways culture works through transnational law.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis to depict how Iranians react to the experience of precarity and the possibility of hope.
On the Doorstep of Europe examines how asylum seekers and service providers in Greece navigate dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability. A new preface highlights how the difficulties encountered by asylum seekers in an earlier time remain relevant and revealing in the face of ongoing crises and challenges today.
Drawing on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love—renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Japan, Making Meaningful Lives provides an intimate anthropological account of the existential concerns of elderly Japanese women and men.
In this account of an anthropologist's journey into Indian psychiatry wards, among women with mental illnesses and the loved ones who care for them, Sarah Pinto responds to ethical crises in caregiving with attention to culture, gender, and the globalized worlds of Indian women.
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Malini Sur
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224788
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh and their efforts to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend.
