A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security

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• 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

Youth and the State in Hungary: Capitalism, Communism and Class

Laszlo Kurti

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• Youth and the State in Hungary takes as its focus the nature of Hungary's youth movements over the last seventy years. In a detailed ethnographic stud... Lees meer

Anthropology and Cultural Studies

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• In adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the anthropology of complex cultural issues, the contributors to this volume review both the challenges a... Lees meer

Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective

Peter Wade

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• Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing i... Lees meer

Bearing Witness

Fiona C Ross

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• People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is infl... Lees meer

Anthropology and the Will to Meaning

Vassos Argyrou

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• Argyrou puts forward a powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology that reveals the self-centered logic of anthropological humanism. Lees meer

Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Unimaginable

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• 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

Macedonia

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• 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

Anthropology of the Self

Brian Morris

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• This book looks at the 'self' in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African... Lees meer

Power, Community and the State

Monique Nuijten

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• This book explores the balance of power between the state and local communities, with particular reference to societies in the developing world. Nuijt... Lees meer

Orange Parades: The Politics of Ritual, Tradition and Control

Dominic Bryan

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• In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order in Northern Ireland, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical st... Lees meer

Being There

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• The nature of anthropological fieldwork changes from generation to generation, reflecting current personal, moral and political issues. This collectio... Lees meer

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

Thomas F Carter

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• In Foreign Fields examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport migrants - those professionals working in the sports indus... Lees meer

Landscape, Memory and History

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• 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

Social Mobility In Kerala

Filippo Osella, Filippo Caroline

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• Essential reading for Indianists and those engaged in the comparative study of modernity, be they anthropologists, historians, or sociologists' - Ethn... Lees meer

Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries

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• 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

Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica

Pete Luetchford

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• Fair trade is widely regarded as a universal good. This fascinating anthropological study takes a closer look at a coffee-growing community and cooper... Lees meer

Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings

Mary Rack

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• This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues... Lees meer

Anthropology, Art And Cultural Production

Maruska Svasek

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• An introduction to anthropological perspectives on art that links the production of art to political and cultural processes Lees meer

Social Mobility in Kerala: Modernity and Identity in Conflict

Filippo Osella, Caroline Osella

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• The Izhavas are an ex-untouchable community in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Politically and economically weak, stigmatised as 'toddy tappers' ... Lees meer

The Trouble With Community

Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport

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• 'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption, of much social science, has been that it is in communities -- and to... Lees meer

On The Game

Sophie Day

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• Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private. Lees meer

Human Rights, Culture and Context

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• Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights d... Lees meer

Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru

Lorraine Nencel

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• In this lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour ha... Lees meer