Anthropology

Forjando Patria: Pro-Nacionalismo (Hardback - 22 Apr 2010)

Forjando Patria
Often considered the father of anthropological studies in Mexico, Manuel Gamio originally published Forjando Patria in 1916. This groundbreaking manifesto for a national anthropology of Mexico summarises the key issues in the development of anthropology as an academic discipline and the establishment of an active field of cultural politics in Mexico. Written during the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution, the book...

By (author) Manuel Gamio; Fernando Armstrong-Fumero

ISBN-13: 9780870819667 ; ISBN-10: 0870819666

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Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE (Hardback - 10 Feb 2010)

Rhetorics of the Americas
This book will provide the first collection of original research and scholarship on uniquely Western Hemispheric rhetorics. This book will provide the first collection of original research and scholarship on uniquely Western Hemispheric rhetorics. This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer...

Edited by Damián Baca; Victor Villanueva

ISBN-13: 9780230619036 ; ISBN-10: 0230619037

Price: £55.00 £42.35 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Contemporary Studies in Ethnography (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Contemporary Studies in Ethnography
Ethnography is a research based method on observing people in their natural environment rather than in a formal research setting. Because people and culture are so incredibly complex, ethnography offers a way to make sense of this complexity. It goes beyond a person's preconceptions by immersion into the world of others. Some cultural anthropologists consider ethnography the essence of the discipline. This book...

Edited by Alfonso Ivarra; Penelope Aguero

ISBN-13: 9781606923771 ; ISBN-10: 1606923773

Price: £74.50 £65.60 Not Available

Cultural Anthropology (Hardback - 21 Jan 2010)

Cultural Anthropology
This Major Work is an authoritative overview of Cultural Anthropology in four volumes; i) Moorings: include articles -- by cultural anthropologists and others -- that have had a particularly forceful impact on the anthropological imagination in the last fifty years; ii) Modernities: explores the many ways cultural anthropologists have examined, critiqued and been part of modernist projects articles will work...

Edited by Mike Fortun; Kim Fortun

ISBN-13: 9781412947336 ; ISBN-10: 1412947332

Price: £600.00 £429.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Durkheim and Violence (Paperback / softback - 26 Feb 2010)

Durkheim and Violence
Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian sociology of violence, exploring the political anthropology of war, the rapport between power and the sacred, and various forms of contemporary irrationalism ranging from mass–mediated suicide to torture at Abu Ghraib. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this volume forms the foundations for a Durkheimian...

Edited by S. Romi Mukherjee

ISBN-13: 9781444332759 ; ISBN-10: 1444332759

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Environmental Social Science: Human—Environment interactions and Sustainability (Paperback / softback - 22 Jan 2010)

Environmental Social Science
Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human–environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross–disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible across the natural and social sciences. . Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of...

By (author) Emilio Moran

ISBN-13: 9781405105743 ; ISBN-10: 1405105747

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Environmental Social Science: Human—Environment interactions and Sustainability (Hardback - 22 Jan 2010)

Environmental Social Science
Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human–environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross–disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible across the natural and social sciences. . Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of...

By (author) Emilio Moran

ISBN-13: 9781405105736 ; ISBN-10: 1405105739

Price: £50.00 £43.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture (Hardback - 13 Jan 2010)

Gendered Citizenships
Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary practices of social inclusion and national belonging. This anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and...

Edited by Kia Lilly Caldwell; Renya K. Ramirez; Kathleen Coll; Tracy Fisher; Lok Siu

ISBN-13: 9780230619852 ; ISBN-10: 0230619851

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Space, Citizenship And Governance (Hardback - 29 Dec 2009)

Space, Citizenship And Governance

By (author) John Binnie

ISBN-13: 9780415359146 ; ISBN-10: 0415359147

Price: £111.11 £83.72 Not Available

NEW SPACES OF EXPLORATION: GEOGRAPHIES OF DISCOVERY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Paperback - 18 Dec 2009)

NEW SPACES OF EXPLORATION

Edited by SIMON NAYLOR

ISBN-13: 9781848850170 ; ISBN-10: 1848850174

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Coming of Age in Times of Crisis: Youth, Schooling, and Patriarchy in a Venezuelan Town (Hardback - 18 Dec 2009)

Coming of Age in Times of Crisis
Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. Strongly grounded in local detail while speaking to larger comparative issues and the crises that surround globalization, the study enables us to see how gender roles and...

By (author) Janise Hurtig

ISBN-13: 9780312293574 ; ISBN-10: 0312293577

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NEW SPACES OF EXPLORATION: GEOGRAPHIES OF DISCOVERY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Hardback - 18 Dec 2009)

NEW SPACES OF EXPLORATION

Edited by SIMON NAYLOR

ISBN-13: 9781848850163 ; ISBN-10: 1848850166

Price: £45.00 £39.25 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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An Islamic Court in Context: An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning (Hardback - 18 Dec 2009)

An Islamic Court in Context
Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes. Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions...

By (author) Erin E. Stiles

ISBN-13: 9780230617407 ; ISBN-10: 0230617409

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Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online (Hardback - 18 Dec 2009)

Netnography
With as many as 1 billion people now using online communities such as newsgroups, blogs, forums, social networking sites, podcasting, videocasting, photosharing communities, and virtual worlds, the internet is now an important site for research. This exciting new text is the first to explore the discipline of 'Netnography' - the conduct of ethnography over the internet - a method specifically designed to study...

By (author) Robert V Kozinets

ISBN-13: 9781848606449 ; ISBN-10: 1848606443

Price: £70.00 £55.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online (Paperback / softback - 18 Dec 2009)

Netnography
With as many as 1 billion people now using online communities such as newsgroups, blogs, forums, social networking sites, podcasting, videocasting, photosharing communities, and virtual worlds, the internet is now an important site for research. This exciting new text is the first to explore the discipline of 'Netnography' - the conduct of ethnography over the internet - a method specifically designed to study...

By (author) Robert V Kozinets

ISBN-13: 9781848606456 ; ISBN-10: 1848606451

Price: £22.99 £20.69 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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PRIME-TIME SOCIETY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TELEVISION AND CULTURE, UPDATED EDITION (Paperback / softback - 15 Dec 2009)

PRIME-TIME SOCIETY
A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the authorΣs research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new Introduction.

By (author) Conrad Phillip Kottak

ISBN-13: 9781598743692 ; ISBN-10: 1598743694

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Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin (Hardback - 14 Dec 2009)

Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature
This is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanising force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological...

Edited by Richard J Preston

ISBN-13: 9781554580408 ; ISBN-10: 1554580404

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Transnational Families (Hardback - 11 Dec 2009)

Transnational Families
This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and family forms across a number of ethnic groups, family types, and national boundaries. Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and...

By (author) Harry Goulbourne; Tracey Reynolds; John Solomos; Elisabetta Zontini

ISBN-13: 9780415468909 ; ISBN-10: 0415468906

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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Paperback / softback - 3 Dec 2009)

The Trashing of Margaret Mead
In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of MeadΣs Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation. Resonating beyond academic circles, his case against Mead tapped into important public concerns of the 1980s, including...

By (author) Paul Shankman; Foreword by Paul S. Boyer

ISBN-13: 9780299234546 ; ISBN-10: 0299234541

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IRAQ AT A DISTANCE: WHAT ANTHROPOLOGISTS CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE WAR (Hardback - 2 Dec 2009)

IRAQ AT A DISTANCE
Iraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed conflicts around the world.

Edited by ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN

ISBN-13: 9780812242034 ; ISBN-10: 0812242033

Price: £26.00 £23.40 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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