History and Theory
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Moral Anthropology
A Critical Reader
This Reader is an essential resource for students and scholars interested in the anthropology of morality. The collection includes classical and more recent material, carefully chosen to provide a critical and historical overview of an important and developing field. The selections are...
To Be Published November 12th 2013 by Routledge
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Interdisciplinarity
Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
Series: CRESC
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and...
To Be Published June 24th 2013 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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City, Street and Citizen
The Measure of the Ordinary
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don’t know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public parts,...
Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere,...
Published April 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Contemporary Critical Theory and Methodology
Series: Social Research Today
Contemporary critical theory’s methodology is currently taking shape under the impact both of transformative internal develops within the discipline, and of external pressures and incentives arising from a series of international debates. In this book, Piet Strydom presents a groundbreaking...
Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Death and the right hand
First published in English 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu to Durkheim and his pupils. In the intervening years since publication, that...
Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
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Lines
A Brief History
This is the first book to explore the production and significance of lines. As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go: here, Tim Ingold lays the foundations for an anthropological archaeology of the line. He investigates: speech and song in the...
Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
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The Reinvention of Primitive Society
Transformations of a Myth, 2nd Edition
The Invention of Primitive Society, Adam Kuper’s best selling critique of ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been much debated since Darwin, has been hugely influential in anthropology and post-colonial studies. This topical new edition, entitled The Reinvention of...
Published June 22nd 2005 by Routledge
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Arguing With Anthropology
An Introduction to Critical Theories of the Gift
Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography,...
Published May 25th 2005 by Routledge
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Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics in the Nation-State, 2nd Edition
In this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them....
Published December 26th 2004 by Routledge
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Anthropology, by Comparison
Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For the most part, comparison as theory and method has been a...
Published February 13th 2002 by Routledge
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Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers
Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every...
Published August 7th 2000 by Taylor & Francis
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Global Culture/Individual Identity
Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket
Most people still think of themselves as belonging to a particular culture. Yet today, many of us who live in affluent societies choose aspects of our lives from a global cultural supermarket, whether in terms of food, the arts or spiritual beliefs. So if roots are becoming simply one more consumer...
Published March 8th 2000 by Routledge
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Constructing the Field
Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the...
Published September 22nd 1999 by Routledge
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Key Debates in Anthropology
Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four principal speakers: one to propose the motion,...
Published October 23rd 1996 by Routledge
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Anthropology and Anthropologists
The Modern British School, 3rd Edition
On its first publication in 1973 Adam Kuper's entertaining history of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions. But his often irreverent account soon established itself as one of the introductions to anthropology.Since the second revised edition was published in 1983,...
Published April 10th 1996 by Routledge
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Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions
Ethnicity has been a key concept in anthropology and sociology for many years, yet many people still seem uncertain as to its meaning, its relevance, and its relationship to other concepts such as `race' and nationalism. In Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions the major anthropological and...
Published December 27th 1995 by Routledge
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The Anthropology of Organizations
The 1980s and 1990s have been a time of change for organizations, with a preoccupation for changing `organizational culture', a concept attributed to anthropology. These changes have been accompanied by questions about different styles of organizing. In both public and private sector organizations...
Published August 24th 1994 by Routledge
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Mimesis and Alterity
A Particular History of the Senses
In his most ambitious and accomplished work to date, Michael Taussig undertakes a history of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and its relation to alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. Drawing upon such diverse sources as theories of Benjamin, Adorno and Horckheimer, research on the Cuna...
Published December 20th 1992 by Routledge