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...

Published July 16th 2008 by Routledge-Cavendish.

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Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America

Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Richard Jenkins

Although the symbolic and political importance of flags has often been mentioned by scholars of nationalism, there are few in-depth studies of the significance of...

Published October 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Living With Violence

An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life

By Roma Chatterji, Deepak Mehta

This book gives a detailed account of the ‘communal riots’ between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the...

Published March 7th 2007 by Routledge India.

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Consuming China

Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China

Edited by Kevin Latham, Stuart Thompson, Jakob Klein

Post-Mao China has been characterized in literature and the media as a burgeoning consumer society. Consuming China investigates this characterization by examining the cultural significance...

Published September 7th 2006 by Routledge.

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Politics of Culture in Iran

By Nematollah Fazeli

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text...

Published November 15th 2005 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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Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics

A Darrell Posey Reader

By Darrell A. Posey Edited by Kristiana Plenderleith

Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering...

Published April 1st 2004 by Routledge.

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Mary Douglas

Collected Works

By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the second world war, she formed part of...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Mary Douglas

Collected Works

By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the second world war, she formed part of...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Lele of the Kasai

By Mary Douglas

This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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