The Impact of Inequality

How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

By Richard G. Wilkinson

In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality affects social relations and well-being. In wealthy countries, health is not simply a matter...

Published June 9th 2005 by Routledge.

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Arguing With Anthropology

An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift

By Karen Sykes

Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically....

Published May 26th 2005 by Routledge.

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Nature

Edited by David Inglis, John Bone, Rhoda Wilkie

'Nature' is perhaps the most contested term in the social sciences. It has a huge variety of possible meanings, and an equally great number of...

Published May 19th 2005 by Routledge.

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The Ecological Native

Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia

By Astrid Ulloa

This text is based on ethnographic information and focused on the historical process of the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements in Latin America, in general,...

Published April 18th 2005 by Routledge.

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Taiwanese American Transnational Families

Women and Kin Work

By Maria W.L. Chee

This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed...

Published April 8th 2005 by Routledge.

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Japan's Changing Generations

Are Young People Creating a New Society?

Edited by Gordon Mathews, Bruce White

Japan's Changing Generations argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to...

Published March 27th 2005 by Routledge.

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The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience

Edited by Susan Kuchler, Were

The Art of Clothing: A Pacific Experience is a collection of richly textured and tremendously engaging empirical studies of cloth and clothing in colonial and...

Published February 11th 2005 by UCL Press.

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Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

By Yuehping Yen

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use...

Published January 12th 2005 by Routledge.

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Cultural Intimacy

Social Poetics in the Nation-State

By Michael Herzfeld

In this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it...

Published December 30th 2004 by Routledge.

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Human Rights in the Digital Age

Edited by Mathias Klang, Andrew Murray

The digital age began in 1939 with the construction of the first digital computer. In the sixty-five years that have followed, the influence of digitisation on...

Published December 23rd 2004 by Routledge-Cavendish.

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