Bücher der Reihe Case Studies in Anthropology

Explores the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya.

"About 337,000 people of French Antillean Origin live in metropolitan France today. Unlike immigrants from North Africa, Turkey or sub-Saharan Africa, Antilleans are French citizens with deep roots in"

Shows the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and highlights the responses of women to those changes.

This book presents a compelling ethnography of the changes Tajikistan faces at the turn of the twenty-first century as seen through the eyes of its youth. It discusses the ethnographic gaze on the tremendous cultural changes being played out in post-Soviet Tajikistan.

What does it mean to be Maya in the modern world? Focusing on a Guatemalan town, this case study explores the cultural, political, and economic changes of this society over time.

Explores the connections between beliefs about writing and power in an indigenous village in highland Ecuador.

Based on the author's fieldwork, the author considers the rural development of the Iraqw of Tanzania--a little-studied group of mixed pastoralist-agriculturalists.