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.

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Highland Homecomings

Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

By Paul Basu

The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern...

Published December 7th 2006 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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The Future of Visual Anthropology

Engaging the Senses

By Sarah Pink

From an eminent author in the field, The Future of Visual Anthropology develops a new approach to visual anthropology and presents a groundbreaking examination of...

Published December 22nd 2005 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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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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Photographs Objects Histories

On the Materiality of Images

Edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Janice Hart

This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use....

Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Rethinking Marriage and Kinship

Edited by Rodney Needham

This volume is concerned with two of the fundamental topics of social anthropology, kinship and marriage, approached from a variety of viewpoints by an international...

Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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We the Tikopia

A sociological study of kinship in primitive Polynesia

By Raymond Firth

Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We...

Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Rites of Passage

By Arnold van Gennep

Van Gennep was the first observer of human behaviour to note that the ritual ceremonies that accompany the landmarks of human life differ only in...

Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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