Anthropology News & Updates – Page 2
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

Can some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history be repaired using anthropology? Environmental Anthropology Today employs a range of ethnographic work across disciplines to explore our overall understanding of how to survive as citizens of the planet.

If you haven't seen Jack David Eller's textbook, Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives, take a look today, and find out why Faidra Papavasilliou, Georgia State University, calls it, "the best textbook I have yet encountered…the 'standards' in the field are twice as expensive and half as good."

2011 has been an exciting year for Routledge Anthropology books with the publication of not one, but two Tim Ingold books.

Routledge author Andrea Wiley discusses the "Trade-Offs to Being Tall."

Earlier this month, Kaori O'Connor spoke with the ABC Radio National program Counterpoint about her new book, Lycra. The interview is online, and you can listen to it here!

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Watch Tim Ingold author of Being Alive, Percpetion of the Environment and Lines deliver a lecture on the “social brain” hypothesis at the Danish School of Education. Watch the video.

Many congratulations to Alan Barnard, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, who has achieved the distinction of being elected a Fellow of the British Academy. This outstanding award is made to those who have 'attained distinction in any of the branches of study which it is the object of the Academy to promote'.

The 2nd edition of the highly-acclaimed Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology provides clear, concise, and provocative explanations of key anthropological themes and ideas.
You can now follow Routledge Anthropology on Twitter @routledge_anth. We'll keep you up to date with books, give you free access to journal articles, and update you on what conferences we're going to.