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Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1914, this title was the first comparative study of the marriage ceremonies in different parts of Morocco. Westermarck considers how ceremonial customs and rituals differ across social and cultural groups throughout the country and discusses their possible roots. Based on...
To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1930, this is the final of Edward Westermarck’s trilogy of titles that explore the society, culture and customs of Morocco. Compiled from years of personal research and interviews conducted with local people, this collection of native proverbs addresses such cultural and...
To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
This book challenges the current state of childhood studies by exploring children and young people’s agency and relationships. It considers how recent theorisations of relationships and relational processes can move childhood studies forward, particularly in relation to re-thinking claims of...
To Be Published August 6th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
Series: Anthropology of Asia
This book examines the revival of worship of the Chinese Deity Huang Daxian and the building of many new temples to the god in mainland China over the last 20 years. Following extensive fieldwork and visits to these temples, the authors analyse how development-oriented...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
