anthropology and ethnography(69)

Health and Disease in the Neolithic Lengyel Culture

This book aims to explain hitherto unknown or insufficiently explained facts from everyday life of the members of the Lengyel culture, Ne...

Adventures in the Stone Age

When Leopold Pospíšil first arrived in New Guinea in 1954 to investigate the legal systems of the local tribes, he was warned about the K...

A New Guinea Diary

Břevno v oku

This new collection of fifty essays with the subheading People in 2022 is loosely based on the concept and structure of the previous book...

Lidé v roce 2022

Meziprostory

How should we work with mixed groups? This is a question Dana Moree asks along with almost fifty participants of mixed Roma and non-Roma ...

Facets of a Harmony

In this important contribution to contemporary Romani Studies, Jan Ort focuses his anthropological research on a village in eastern Slova...

The Roma and Their Locatedness in Eastern Slovakia

Vývoj odívání v pravěku a starověku

Jarmila Navrátilová’s book presents the development of clothing in the oldest times. It focuses on the early stage of clothing production...

Harmonie soužití

Unlike other anthropological studies focusing predominantly on settlements in Eastern Slovakia, Jan Ort focused his field research on a v...

Romové jako místní obyvatelé východního Slovenska

Ethnic Diaspora Festivities in the Czech Republic

The publication reviews the festivities in the lives of immigrants who came to the Czech Republic after 1990 and who have since created n...

Cultural Traditions between Isolation, Integration and Hybridization

Kočka se čtyřmi ocasy

The third collection of fifty short essays by the science populariser František Koukolík is a sequel to the volumes Man Bites Dog (2021) ...

Lidé v roce 2023

Etnicita a nacionalismus

Ethnicity has been one of the main topics in the field of social anthropology since the end of the 1960s and still today remains a centra...

Antropologické perspektivy

Výtvarná rekonstrukce pravěku a evoluce člověka

The book introduces the reader to the developmental changes in the artistic reconstruction of the prehistoric world, especially the Upper...

Vietnam vzdálený i blízký

The book is based on a narrative analysis of the life biographies of children of Vietnamese descent living in the Czech Republic. It show...

Potomci Vietnamců v Česku