In recent years, work in ethnomusicology has moved decisively toward a fully
anthropological perspective. Rhetorically evolving from an anthropology of music (229) to a …

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the
recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible …

In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw
present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful …

In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of
young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning …

The study of language as culture in US anthropology is a set of distinct and often not fully
compatible practices that can be made sense of through the identification of three historically …

In Communicating, the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes
through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on. The …

Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across
the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing …

This clear and engaging guide introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how
to apply an anthropological approach to the study of religion in the contemporary world …

Anthropologists widely agree that identities--even ethnic and racial ones--are socially
constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived …

What are the real “basics” of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in
children's worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing …