Creativity and Cultural Improvisation

• Hardcover | Engels | Asa Monographs
• There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anth... Lees meer

Reason and Morality

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• First Published in 1985. What is the place of reason and conversely of the unreasonable, the contradictory, the emotional and the chaotic in social li... Lees meer

Anthropology and Responsibility

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• This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, wha... Lees meer

Contemporary Futures

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• In industrial societies imagining the future is a serious business; our assumptions about the future govern the present management of domestic, nation... Lees meer

World Anthropologies in Practice

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• In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. Lees meer

Contemporary Futures

• Paperback | Engels | Asa Monographs
• In industrial societies imagining the future is a serious business; our assumptions about the future govern the present management of domestic, nation... Lees meer

Reason and Morality

• Paperback | Engels | Asa Monographs | nr. 24
• First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

The Qualities of Time

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• This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, ... Lees meer

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

Pnina Werbner

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• Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements respon... Lees meer

Shifting States

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• Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states - from the pre- to the post- industrial - and explores to... Lees meer

Participating in Development

• Paperback | Engels | Asa Monographs | nr. 34
• First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

Ritual, Performance, Media

• Paperback | Engels | Asa Monographs | nr. 35
• Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brin... Lees meer

Archaeology and Anthropology

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• Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment. Th... Lees meer

Elite Cultures

• Hardcover | Engels | Asa Monographs | nr. 38
• Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occ... Lees meer

Archaeology and Anthropology

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• Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment. Th... Lees meer

The Time of Anthropology

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• The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientif... Lees meer

The Qualities of Time

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• This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, ... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Asa Monographs | nr. 36
• An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its ba... Lees meer

Human Rights in Global Perspective

Mitchell Jon

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• In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across di... Lees meer

Environmentalism

Kay Milton

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• Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local envir... Lees meer

Questions of Consciousness

• Paperback | Engels | Asa Monographs | nr. 33
• First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Lees meer

Socialism

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• Socialism as a political system may be on the wane, yet no one can doubt that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt for years to come, and o... Lees meer

Human Rights in Global Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Asa Monographs
• In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across di... Lees meer

Thinking Through Tourism

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• The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, ex... Lees meer