Gender Trouble Makers

Education and Empowerment in Nepal

By Jennifer Rothchild

International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development...

Published October 19th 2006 by Routledge.

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How to Read Ethnography

By Huon Wardle, Paloma Gay y Blasco

How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop...

Published October 5th 2006 by Routledge.

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Home

By Alison Blunt, Robyn Dowling

‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social...

Published August 3rd 2006 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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Violence and Belonging

The Quest for Identity in Post-Colonial Africa

By Vigdis Broch-Due

Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing wealth relationships, have not always created stable...

Published November 25th 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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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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Surviving Your Thesis

Edited by Suzan Burton, Peter Steane

From choosing a supervisor and topic to staying motivated, completing a research thesis is not an easy matter. Each stage represents a different challenge and...

Published March 18th 2004 by Routledge.

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