Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Edited by Dr Alan Barnard, Jonathan Spencer

This is the only encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology to cover fully the many important areas of overlap between anthropology and related disciplines. This...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28558-2 (Routledge)

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From Hunting to Drinking

The Devastating Effects of Alcohol on an Australian Aboriginal Community

By David McKnight

From Hunting to Drinking reveals the social change witnessed over a period of 30 years by an anthropologist on Mornington Island, off the North Queensland...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27151-6 (Routledge)

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Negotiating Ethnicity in China

Citizenship as a Response to the State

By Chih-yu Shih

This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such...

2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28372-4 (Routledge)

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Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe

The New Strangers

By Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune

Bringing together case studies and theory, this book is the first in-depth qualitative study of student migration within Europe. Drawing on the theory of 'the...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26179-1 (Routledge)

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They Lie, We Lie

Getting on with Anthropology

By Peter Metcalf

They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26260-6 (Routledge)

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Technical Knowledge and Development

Observing Aid Projects and Processes

By Thomas Grammig

Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-25364-2 (Routledge)

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Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property

Edited by R Layton, P Stone, J Thomas

In 1991 the mosque at Ayodhya in India was demolished by Hindu fundamentalists who claim that it stood on the birthplace of a legendary Hindu...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-415-21695-1 (Routledge)

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Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

By Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas

Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23279-1 (Routledge)

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The Anthropology of Love and Anger

The Aesthetics of Conviviality in Native Amazonia

Edited by Joanna Overing, Alan Passes

The Anthropology of Love and Anger questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. In their examination of indigenous peoples from across the South American...

2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22418-5 (Routledge)

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The British on The Costa Del Sol

By Karen O'Reilly

'Brits in Spain' first achieved notoriety during the 1980s - popularly imagined as a group made up of exiled criminals, drunken hooligans and leathery looking...

2000 | Paperback: 978-1-84142-047-9 (Routledge)

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