Anthropology of Now
Anthropology and AI
1st Edition
Edited
By Lora Koycheva, Angela K. VandenBroek, Matt Artz
November 14, 2025
Anthropology and AI explores the complex intersection of artificial intelligence and human society through a diverse collection of anthropological and social scientific perspectives. Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating and permeating the everyday lives of people around the world in ...
Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin
1st Edition
By Fabian Broeker
May 05, 2025
Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin’s unique dating culture and brand of intimacy and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals, romantic biographies, and digitally mediated intimacies within city space....
What Brexit Means: An Anthropology of Polarization and Cultural Change in Britain
1st Edition
By Max Horder
December 06, 2024
What Brexit Means explores the rise of populism in Britain. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork amongst ideologically committed Brexit activists, it examines the discourse of populism across language, culture, politics, psychology, and cognition. It explains how populism is expressed...
Culture and Diversity in the United States: So Many Ways to Be American
2nd Edition
By Jack David Eller
December 05, 2024
This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories....
Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mayfair Yang
May 06, 2024
This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China’s ascendancy both within China itself and beyond. It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but...
Gun Rights Activists and the US Culture War: Embodied Fantasies of the Ethical Warrior in Contemporary Gun Culture
1st Edition
By Joe Anderson
February 23, 2024
Gun Rights Activists and the US Culture War is a political anthropology book which explores how firearms can become associated with processes of identity formation, as well as acting as symbols of national belonging and embodied safety. In the years following Donald Trump’s election an increasingly...
Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Wanner
December 15, 2023
This volume examines Russia’s war on Ukraine. Scholars who have lived through the Russian invasion or who have conducted ethnographic research in the region for decades provide timely analysis of a war that will leave a lasting mark on the twenty-first century. Using the concept of dispossession, ...
The Anthropology of Donald Trump: Culture and the Exceptional Moment
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack David Eller
November 30, 2021
The Anthropology of Donald Trump is an edited volume of original anthropological essays, composed by some of the leading figures in the discipline. It applies their concepts, perspectives, and methods to a sustained and diverse understanding of Trump’s supporters, policies, and performance in ...