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Ethnographic Book Series

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
Published by Cornell University Press.
Berghahn Books
An independent publisher that specializes in Anthropology and Social & Cultural Anthropology.
Carolina Academic Press Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology
This series is designed to make available detailed ethnographic studies that set issues of health and illness into clear contexts of a historical and cultural kind.
Contemporary Ethnography
Published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Culture, Place, and Nature: Studies in Anthropology and Environment
Centered in anthropology, the Culture, Place, and Nature series encompasses new interdisciplinary social science research on environmental issues, focusing on the intersection of culture, ecology, and politics in global, national, and local contexts.
ethnoGRAPHIC
Books in the series combine the power of ethnographic research with the unique elements of comics as a sequential art, using page, panels, gutters, visuals, dialogue, captions, line, and lettering to tell the story. Published by the University of Toronto Press.
Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology
Published by Oxford University Press.
Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture
Each volume concisely introduces and analyses core topics in the study of visual anthropology and material culture from distinctively anthropological perspective. Published by Bloomsbury.
Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
Books in this series are ethnographically rich and innovative in form and content, focusing on such issues as: linguistic inequality, old and new literacies, linguistic relativity, the contexts of linguistic change, language socialization, gendered language use, institutional discourse, agency and language, language contact, language endangerment and revitalization, poetics and performance, language ideologies, narrative analysis, and the aesthetics of language use.