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...

Published July 9th 2008 by Routledge.

White Weddings

Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture

By Chrys Ingraham

This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this...

Published January 29th 2008 by Routledge.

The Caveman Mystique

Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science

By Martha McCaughey

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The...

Published October 19th 2007 by Routledge.

Reflexive Ethnography

A Guide to Researching Selves and Others

By Charlotte Aull Davies

Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research...

Published October 18th 2007 by Routledge.

Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life

By Bronwyn Davies

How has Judith Butler’s writing contributed to thought in the Social Sciences and the Humanities? The participants in this project draw on various aspects of...

Published August 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

Ethnography

Principles in Practice

By Martyn Hammersley, Paul Atkinson

Now in its third edition this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles...

Published June 14th 2007 by Routledge.

International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities

Edited by Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, Keith Pringle

The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

Resource, Tradition and Cooking

Edited by Sidney Cheung, Chee-Beng Tan

Food is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medium for the understanding of social relations, family and...

Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.

Thinking Through Things

Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

Edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell

Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and...

Published November 30th 2006 by Routledge.

Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age

By Kyra Landzelius

Exploring the influence of the Internet on the lives of indigenous and diasporic peoples, Kyra Landzelius leads a team of expert anthropologists and ethnographers who...

Published October 26th 2006 by Routledge.