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11. Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals)

    A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

    By Akbar Ahmed

    First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed,...

    Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
12. Subalternity and Difference

    Investigations from the North and the South

    Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

    Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

    Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

    Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
13. Amazonian Geographies

    Emerging Identities and Landscapes

    Edited by Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink

    Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming...

    Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
14. Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals)

    Portrait of a Japanese Valley

    By Brian Moeran

    First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
15. Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals)

    Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution

    By L. S. B. Leakey, Vanne Morris Goodall

    Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. For anyone interested in man's past...

    Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge
16. Indigeneity in the Courtroom

    Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts

    By Jennifer A. Hamilton

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late&...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
17. Native American Writing

    Edited by A. Robert Lee

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse If white settlers landing in the New World brought with them smallpox, oppression, and Christianity, they also conveyed the cultural practice of writing. Adopters of this technology from within Native America and First Nations Canada began to adapt...

    Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
18. The Politics of Belonging in India

    Becoming Adivasi

    Edited by Daniel J. Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in...

    Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
19. Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

    Edited by Colin Mackerras

    Series: Critical Concepts in Asian Studies

    China is the world’s most populous country with fifty-five state-recognized ethnic minorities: approximately 123 million people, taking up over 60 per cent of China’s territory. And, while China’s dizzying growth has made it a major world force, both economically and strategically, one of the chief...

    Published March 10th 2011 by Routledge
20. The Ecological Native

    Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia

    By Astrid Ulloa

    Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

    This text analyzes indigenous peoples' processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the...

    Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge