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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The City in South Asia

By James Heitzman

The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities,...

Published April 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

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The Intimate State

Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

By Perveez Mody

This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of...

Published March 1st 2008 by Routledge India.

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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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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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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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Nature

By Noel Castree

Exploring the shifting ways in which geographers have studied nature, this book emphasizes the relationships and differences between human geography, physical geography and resource and...

Published July 21st 2005 by Routledge.

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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...

Published January 12th 2005 by Routledge.

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