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1. Anthropology and Nature

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   On the basis of empirical studies, this book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book may be read as a form of scholarly "edgework," resisting institutional divisions and conceptual routines in the interest of exploring new...

   To Be Published July 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Social Life of Climate Change Models

   Anticipating Nature

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Martin Skrydstrup

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only...

   Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. Siting Culture

   The Shifting Anthropological Object

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Karen Fog Olwig

   Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are...

   Published November 27th 1996 by Routledge
4. A Passage to Anthropology

   Between Experience and Theory

   By Kirsten Hastrup

   The postmodernist critique of Objectivism, Realism and Essentialism has somewhat shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying others. By confronting the critique and turning it into a vital part of the anthropological debate, A Passage to Anthropology...

   Published November 1st 1995 by Routledge
5. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the...

   Published July 13th 1994 by Routledge
6. Other Histories

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of...

   Published October 28th 1992 by Routledge