Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

By Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central disciplines students will encounter in this field. Fully updated,...

Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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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.

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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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Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy

Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen

Edited by Joy Hendry, Heung Wah Wong

It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’...

Published August 1st 2006 by Routledge.

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The Reinvention of Primitive Society

Transformations of a Myth

By Adam Kuper

The Invention of Primitive Society, Adam Kuper’s best selling critique of ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been much debated since...

Published June 23rd 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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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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Readings in Early Anthropology

By James S. Slotkin

This book considers the beginnings of anthropology as a cultural tradition, and examines how it was developed and transmitted.
It begins in the twelfth...

Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane

By Phyllis Kaberry

First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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Women of the Grassfields

A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Barmenda, British Cameroons

By Phyllis Kaberry

This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions...

Published November 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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