New Genetics, New Identities

Edited by Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade

What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society?

New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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.

Education and Empowerment in Nepal

By Jennifer Rothchild

International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development...

Published October 19th 2006 by Routledge.

Minority within a Minority

Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance

By Amal Ibrahim Madibbo

This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the...

Published September 20th 2006 by Routledge.

Diasporic Chinese Communities in the United States and Germany

By Sylvia Van Ziegert

An exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. The book not only...

Published July 25th 2006 by Routledge.

Politics of Religion

A Survey

Edited by Jeff Haynes

This new title explores some of the key issues which surround the politics of religion, an area which has historically been the cause of great...

Published April 13th 2006 by Routledge.

Sufism in the West

Edited by Jamal Malik, John Hinnells

With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism – intellectually as well as sociologically – may eventually become Islam itself due to its...

Published March 8th 2006 by Routledge.

A Case Study of the Genetic Research on the Lemba

By Tudor Parfitt, Yulia Egorova

This is the first book to explore the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite...

Published January 26th 2006 by Routledge.

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.

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.