Regional Anthropology Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. The Modern Anthropology of India

   Ethnography, Themes and Theory

   Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

   The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

   Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Dealing with Disaster in Japan

   Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life for any single air crash in the world. 520 people, many of whom had...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia

   By Nils Bubandt

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. Indonesia is simultaneous a country that has achieved a successful transition to democracy and a flawed, illiberal, and...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Culturalization of Caste in India

   Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

   By Balmurli Natrajan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
7. Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia

   Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations

   Edited by Adam Clulow

   Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia

   Applied anthropology and environmental reclamation in the northern Philippines

   By Ben Wallace

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   This book follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' - a multi-year forestry and agriculture research project in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and the government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy by which...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521

    By Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

    Edited by Genaro Garcia

    First published in 1928.'Something more than an historical document of the first importance...his narrative is so readable that one's interest and admiration are equally divided between the stupendous events he records and the charming revelations of his own character.' Saturday Review.Four...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge