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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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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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,...

Published February 26th 2004 by 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,...

Published December 18th 2003 by 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...

Published June 26th 2003 by 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...

Published May 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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Fashion as Communication

By Malcolm Barnard

What kinds of things do fashion and clothing say about us? What does it mean to wear Gap or Gaultier, Milletts or Moschino? Are there...

Published August 29th 2002 by Routledge.

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Anthropology, by Comparison

Edited by Richard G. Fox, Andre Gingrich

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in...

Published February 14th 2002 by Routledge.

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Magical Interpretations, Material Realities

Modernity, Witchcraft and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa

Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders

'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing...

Published December 13th 2001 by Routledge.

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Understanding Media

By Marshall McLuhan

When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one,...

Published May 18th 2001 by Routledge.

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