On this page we have invited editors of Special Issues published in Ethos to offer summaries of their collected volumes with a particular focus on pedagogical potential. We welcome you to explore these overviews and consider volumes highlighted here for classroom use. To order special issues individually or as course texts please visit the Ethos homepage on the Wiley-Blackwell website.

The Immanent Past

Ethos volume 34, number 2, June 2006

Edited by Kevin Birth

Mr. Bean cutout decorating a Cooper Mini parked in front

of the remains of a seventeenth-century structure.

Eisenach, Germany 2002. Photo Credit: Jason James

Building Biocultural Anthropology

Ethos volume 33, number 1, March 2005

Edited by Daniel H. Lende, Daniel J. Hruschka, Carol M. Worthman                                         

Brandon Kohrt and colleague conducting health exams and ethnographic interviews in Jumla district, Nepal

Photo credit: Brandon Kohrt

Contributions to a Feminist Psychological Anthropology

Ethos volume 32, number 4, December 2004
Edited by Katherine Frank, Wendy Luttrell,

Ernestine McHugh, Naomi Quinn, Susan Seymour, and Claudia Strauss

Ethnographic Studies of Positioning and Subjectivity:

Narcotraffickers, Taiwanese Brides, Angry Loggers, School Troublemakers

Ethos volume 32, number 2, June 2004

Edited by Dorothy Holland and Kevin Leander

History and Subjectivity

Ethos volume 28, number 4, December 2000

Edited by Geoffrey White

World War II Memorial on the mall, Washington D.C.

Photo credit:

Geoffrey White