Slave of Allah: Zacarias Moussaoui Vs the USA

Katherine C Donahue

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• In 2006 Zacarias Moussaoui became the first person to stand trial in the US for the events of September 11 2001. This timely book provides a close ins... Lees meer

Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Contributors to this volume take issue with the 'idealist' approach in which land and landscape - place and space - are read as purely expressive and ... Lees meer

Terror and Violence

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experience and history? This volume offers a number of timel... Lees meer

The Gloss of Harmony: The Politics of Policy-Making in Multilateral Organisations

Birgit Muller

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• The Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunded organisations... Lees meer

Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru

Lorraine Nencel

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• In this lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour ha... Lees meer

Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikistan

Colette Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Control and Subversion makes an important contribution to the study of Muslim societies in general, while also being a unique study of a neglected are... Lees meer

On the Game: Women and Sex Work

Sophie Day

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• ***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems.*** On the Game is an ethnographic account... Lees meer

Race and Sex in Latin America

Peter Wade

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject touched upon by many disciplines but this is the first book to deal solely with these i... Lees meer

Anthropology's World: Life in a Twenty-First-Century Discipline

Ulf Hannerz

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in whic... Lees meer

Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings

Mary Rack

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues... Lees meer

Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective

Peter Wade

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing i... Lees meer

Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Globalisation has had a massive impact on the teaching and practice of anthropology. This important new book, edited by leading anthropologist Thomas ... Lees meer

Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City

Leslie J Bank

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London condu... Lees meer

Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan

Joma Nazpary

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• In the 1990s the former states of the Soviet Union underwent dramatic and revolutionary changes. As a result of enforced, neo-liberal reforms the fled... Lees meer

The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement Is Changing the Face of Democracy

Marianne Maeckelbergh

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisi... Lees meer

Food for Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements

Jeff Pratt, Pete Luetchford

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the o... Lees meer

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

Peter Wade

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• For over ten years, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America has been an essential text for students studying the region. This second edition adds new mate... Lees meer

Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh

Katy Gardner

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How ... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-Terrorism and Border Control

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-c... Lees meer

A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of Insecurity outlines ... Lees meer

Flip-Flop

Caroline Knowles

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Kno... Lees meer

Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The contributors explore this question from an anthropolog... Lees meer

In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration

Thomas F Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• In Foreign Fields examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport migrants - those professionals working in the sports indus... Lees meer

Claiming Individuality: The Cultural Politics of Distinction

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology, Culture and Society (Hardcover)
• Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book takes a different approach: the contributor... Lees meer