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1. The Ethics of Anthropology

   Debates and Dilemmas

   Edited by Pat Caplan

   Since the inception of their discipline, anthropologists have studied virtually every conceivable aspect of other peoples' morality - religion, social control, sin, virtue, evil, duty, purity and pollution. But what of the examination of anthropology itself, and of its agendas, epistemes, theories...

   Published June 18th 2003 by Routledge
2. Food, Health and Identity

   Edited by Pat Caplan

   By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.The articles explore, among other issues:• the family...

   Published August 6th 1997 by Routledge
3. African Voices, African Lives

   Personal Narratives from a Swahili Village

   Edited by Pat Caplan

   African Voices, African Lives explores the world of 'Mohammed', a swahili peasant living on Mafia Island, Tanzania. Through his own words - some written, some spoken - and those of his relatives, including his ex-wife and one of his daughters, he enables us to see the world through his eyes,...

   Published February 27th 1997 by Routledge
4. Gendered Fields

   Women, Men and Ethnography

   Edited by Diane Bell, Pat Caplan, Wazir Jahan Karim

   Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual...

   Published March 17th 1993 by Routledge
5. The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

   By Pat Caplan

   Illustrates the argument that sexuality is not a `thing in itself' but a concept that can only be understood with reference to economic, political and social factors....

   Published February 4th 1987 by Routledge