Contemporary Ethnography
Founded in 1989, this groundbreaking series’ purpose is to encourage ethnographic writing that is flexible enough to give a voice to the people whose lives it records, to recreate those lives rather than merely describe them, and to encompass in this recreation the complexity, ambiguity, and emotion that are central to human experience. This flexibility can be achieved through the use of narration, first person and multiple points of view, dialogue, descriptive imagery, and other literary techniques.
Series Editor:
Alma Gottlieb
Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Staff Editorial Contact:
Elisabeth Maselli, Senior Editor
emaselli@upenn.edu
Founding Editors:
Paul Stoller
Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University
Permanent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg
Dan Rose
Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania
Editor Emerita:
Kirin Narayan
Professor of Anthropology, Australian National University
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Atmospheric Violence
Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512823608
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongside continuing violence. Departing from conventional...
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825565
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity...
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory...
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives...
Vodún
Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225259
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the...
Faith in Flux
Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225105
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
232 Pages
Pentecostalism—Africa’s fastest growing form of Christianity—is known for displacing that which came before. Yet anthropologist Devaka Premawardhana witnessed neither massive growth nor dramatic...
Fighting for Dignity
Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224900
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
In Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana...
Marriage Without Borders
Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224740
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Paperback
180 Pages
In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigré ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naïve dupe....
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka
Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812252408
Pub Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Sandya Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone analyzed how female factory workers in Sri Lanka's free trade zones challenged conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom...
Shiptown
Between Rural and Urban North India
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224573
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Paperback
346 Pages
Jahazpur is a small market town or qasba with a diverse population of more than 20,000 people located in Bhilwara District in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. With roots deep in history and legend,...
Atmospheric Violence
Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512823608
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512825565
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Vodún
Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225259
Pub Date: February 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Faith in Flux
Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812225105
Pub Date: November 2021
Format: Paperback
232 Pages
Fighting for Dignity
Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224900
Pub Date: May 2021
Format: Paperback
344 Pages
Marriage Without Borders
Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224740
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Paperback
180 Pages
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka
Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812252408
Pub Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Shiptown
Between Rural and Urban North India
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224573
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Paperback
346 Pages