Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

By Yuehping Yen

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31753-5 (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...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32664-3 (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...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32363-5 (Routledge)

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Women of Tropical Africa

Edited by Denise Paulme

This book is unique in its approach in that each chapter covers women in their everyday lives and the problems, which concern them. Until now,...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33000-8 (Routledge)

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Encounters with Violence in Latin America

Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala

By Cathy McIlwaine, Caroline Moser

Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal,...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25865-4 (Routledge)

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Living with Separation in China

Anthropological Accounts

By Charles Stafford

Chinese idioms and practices of separation are relevant to the experiences of ordinary people in many social domains, ranging from gender and kinship, to religion...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30571-6 (Routledge)

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Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

By Melanie Smith

Combining a rigorous and academic theoretical framework with practical case studies and real-life examples, initiatives and projects from both the developed and developing world, this...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25638-4 (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...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45767-5 (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...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29104-0 (Routledge)

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Purity and Danger

An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29105-7 (Routledge)

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