Racial Discrimination

Institutional Patterns and Politics

By Masoud Kamali

There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability. It is a result of the collision and incompatibility between declarations of...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98987-9 (Routledge)

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Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Edited by Vered Amit

Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47553-2 (Routledge)

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Service Work

Critical Perspectives

Edited by Cameron MacDonald, Marek Korczynski

Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95317-7 (Routledge)

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Evolution and Human Behaviour

An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

By Alex Alland

Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded.

Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47434-4 (Routledge)

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The Design Culture Reader

Edited by Ben Highmore

Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40356-6 (Routledge)

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Korea Confronts Globalization

Edited by Yunshik Chang, Hyun-ho Seok, Donald Baker

Korea Confronts Globalization looks at the way in which the phenomenon of globalization has impacted on Korean society in terms of national identity, corporate change,...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45879-5 (Routledge)

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Hong Kong, China

Learning to belong to a nation

By Gordon Mathews, Eric Ma, Tai-Lok Lui

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48013-0 (Routledge)

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Making Music in Japan’s Underground

The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

By Jennifer Milioto Matsue

Grounded in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Popular Music Studies, and Japanese Studies, this book explores the underground Tokyo hardcore scene, ultimately asking what play...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96152-3 (Routledge)

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The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution

'Restoring What Was Ours'

Edited by Derick Fay, Deborah James

The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’ offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46108-5 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Love in Modern Japan

Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

By Sonia Ryang

This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47926-4 (Routledge)

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