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21. Gendered Anthropology

    Edited by Teresa del Valle

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which...

    Published June 2nd 1993 by Routledge
22. 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
23. Understanding Rituals

    Edited by Daniel de Coppet

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's...

    Published October 28th 1992 by Routledge
24. Alcohol, Gender and Culture

    Edited by Dimitra Gefou-Madianou

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Europeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol, and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural, religious, and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups...

    Published September 30th 1992 by Routledge
25. Conceptualizing Society

    Edited by Adam Kuper

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    The first collection of papers taken from the first conference of the EASA, discussing the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today....

    Published July 1st 1992 by Routledge