Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

Edited by Fiona Bowie

Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn...

Published October 7th 2004 by Routledge.

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Community Volunteers in Japan

Everyday stories of social change

By Lynne Nakano

Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the...

Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge.

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Statistical Methods for Organizational Research

Theory and Practice

By Chris Dewberry

This clearly written textbook clarifies the concepts underpinning descriptive and inferential statistics in organizational research. Acting as much more than a theoretical reference tool, step-by-step...

Published August 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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Colonialist Photography

Imag(in)ing Race and Place

Edited by Eleanor M. Hight, Gary D. Sampson

Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with...

Published July 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Money Makes Us Relatives

Women's Labor in Urban Turkey

By Jenny B. White

In the rural immigrant community of Istanbul, poor women spend up to fifty hours a week producing goods for export, yet deny that they actually...

Published June 24th 2004 by Routledge.

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Working Images

Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography

Edited by Ana Isabel Alfonso, Laszlo Kurti, Sarah Pink

Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists...

Published June 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Beauty Industry

Gender, Culture, Pleasure

By Paula Black

The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become...

Published May 28th 2004 by Routledge.

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Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique

By Sonia Ryang

Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists

By Gerald Gaillard

This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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A Guide to Imagework

Imagination-Based Research Methods

By Iain Edgar

A Guide to Imagework is a pioneering guide to a new trend in ethnographic research: the use of imaginative, experiential methods such as dreamwork, artwork,...

Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.

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