Teaching and Learning
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Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology
Contemporary anthropology is a lively and fast-moving discipline, responding to the challenges of globalisation with exciting new directions and an increasingly interdisciplinary approach. Written by an experienced international team of contributors, this Companion: introduces key contemporary...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Doing Anthropological Research
A Practical Guide
Doing Anthropological Research provides a practical toolkit for carrying out research. It works through the process chapter by chapter, from the planning and proposal stage to methodologies, secondary research, ethnographic fieldwork, ethical concerns, and writing strategies. Case study examples...
To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Cultural Anthropology
Global Forces, Local Lives, 2nd Edition
Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world. It offers an exceptionally clear and readable introduction to cultural anthropology, closely relating it to key topics such as colonialism and...
Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
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Alcohol
Social Drinking in Cultural Context
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to...
Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
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The World of Wal-Mart
Discounting the American Dream
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart’s...
Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Engaging Anthropological Theory
A Social and Political History
This lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Mark Moberg examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological ideas regarding human diversity have always been...
Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2nd Edition
Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade....
Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Fake Stuff
China and the Rise of Counterfeit Goods
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Lycra
How A Fiber Shaped America
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...
Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
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Coffee Culture
Local Experiences, Global Connections
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...
Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
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Fifty Key Anthropologists
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent...
Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Re-imagining Milk
Cultural and Biological Perspectives
Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
Written explicitly for undergraduates, Re-imagining Milk demonstrates how a particular commodity can be used to illustrate ethnocentric beliefs about the universal goodness of milk; biological variation in human populations; political and economic processes that inform dietary policies, nutrition...
Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
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Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central disciplines students will encounter in this field. Fully updated, the second edition includes new entries on: aesthetics egalitarianism the everyday landscape power the state. With full...
Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
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Anthropology: The Basics
Series: The Basics
The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do...
Published September 7th 2005 by Routledge