Regional Ethnography: UK & Europe
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Sport, Difference and Belonging
Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...
Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Crack Cocaine Users
High Society and Low Life in South London
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood drug-using group and have the...
Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
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Highland Homecomings
Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora
The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology,...
Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
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Ambivalent Europeans
Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta
Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or not the Maltese are 'European'. Jon Mitchell...
Published September 19th 2001 by Routledge