Anthropology 2013

Islam, Development, and Urban Women’s Reproductive Practices

By Cortney Hughes Rinker

Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic...

Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge

Sexuality, Women, and Tourism

Cross-border desires through contemporary travel

By Susan E. Frohlick

Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women

Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia,...

Published July 7th 2011 by Routledge

Human Sexuality

Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives

By Anne Bolin, Patricia Whelehan

Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives is a unique textbook that provides a complete analysis of this crucial aspect of life around the world. Utilizing viewpoints across cultural and national boundaries, and deftly weaving evolutionary and psychological perspectives,...

Published March 25th 2009 by Routledge

Feeding Desire

Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

By Rebecca Popenoe

While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten...

Published October 28th 2003 by Routledge

Sex and Repression in Savage Society

2nd Edition

By Bronislaw Malinowski

Series: Routledge Classics

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating in their activities, he invented what became known...

Published May 16th 2001 by Routledge

Women At A Crossroads

By M. Lewis Renaud, M. Lewis Renaud

HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex. Kaolack, Senegal is a town where travellers and prostitutes converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared, especially among the prostitutes. Going beyond...

Published May 21st 1997 by Routledge

Gendering Orientalism

Race, Femininity and Representation

By Reina Lewis

In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on the contributions of women themselves. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other `lost' women Orientlist artists and the literary works...

Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge

Taboo

Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork

Edited by Don Kulick, Margaret Willson

Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts. How does the sexual identity that anthropologists have in their "home" society affect the kind of sexuality they are...

Published October 4th 1995 by Routledge

Gender Planning and Development

Theory, Practice and Training

By Caroline Moser

Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support...

Published July 28th 1993 by Routledge

Gendered Fields

Women, Men and Ethnography

Edited by Diane Bell, Pat Caplan, Wazir Jahan Karim

Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual...

Published March 17th 1993 by Routledge

The Cultural Construction of Sexuality

By Pat Caplan

Illustrates the argument that sexuality is not a `thing in itself' but a concept that can only be understood with reference to economic, political and social factors....

Published February 4th 1987 by Routledge

Chisungu

A Girl's Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia

By Audrey Richards

While there have been a number of descriptions and interpretations of boys' initiation rituals, Audrey Richards's classic study of initiation rites among the Bemba remains one of the few studies to deal in detail with the initiation of girls into adult life.Dr Richards observed the entire chisungu...

Published May 5th 1982 by Routledge