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11. Locality and Belonging

    Edited by Nadia Lovell

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and...

    Published September 2nd 1998 by Routledge
12. Anthropology of Policy

    Perspectives on Governance and Power

    Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight...

    Published July 30th 1997 by Routledge
13. The Ethnography of Moralities

    Edited by Signe Howell

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and...

    Published December 4th 1996 by Routledge
14. Inside and Outside the Law

    Edited by Olivia Harris

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific case-studies, it examines the diverse ways in which people in different cultural and historical settings have experienced the ambiguities of law. Its theme...

    Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
15. Civil Society

    Challenging Western Models

    Edited by Elizabeth Dunn, Chris Hann

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable...

    Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
16. Grasping the Changing World

    Edited by Vaclav Hubinger

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    As different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and...

    Published August 7th 1996 by Routledge
17. Nature and Society

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic...

    Published July 24th 1996 by Routledge
18. Fieldwork and Footnotes

    Studies in the History of European Anthropology

    Edited by Arturo Alvarez Roldan, Han Vermeulen

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain,...

    Published December 21st 1994 by Routledge
19. Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism

    The Politics of Religious Synthesis

    Edited by Rosalind Shaw, Charles Stewart

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not...

    Published October 5th 1994 by Routledge
20. 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