Anthropology

When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensu...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the A...

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

This book, based on 25 months of anthropological fieldwork, examines activists and activism in Palestinian nongovernmental organizations in Israel....

Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world. This volume brings together original papers from a number of countri...

Multiculturalism and diversity have raised a number of challenges for liberal democracy, not least the stigmatization of people in response to thes...

This special issue of Ethnohistory examines how Amerindian graphic codes interacted with alphabetic writing in the colonial polities of the America...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scien...

Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply infl...

Oral history has been employed for decades by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists to collect data about lived experience. This volume exp...

Empowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an i...

Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive ...

The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to ...

This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For re...

Learning from Chinese Philosophies engages Confucian and Daoist philosophies in creative interplay, developing a theory of interdependent selfhood ...

The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an ...

This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined f...

Anthropologist practitioners work outside the confines of the university, putting their knowledge and skills to work on significant problems in a w...

Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa’s public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of ci...

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classi...

Suitable for both introductory anthropology and upper-division courses in cultural anthropologyThe campaign of the Cree people to protect their for...

Desire in the broadest sense, as a form of generous self-assertion should ideally increase with the passage of time as we gradually acquire deeper ...

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organiz...

Through analyses of cases in Australia, Finland, Greenland and elsewhere, the book illuminates how states appropriate hope as a means to stall and ...

Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term ...

International regional organizations are created to serve the interests of the member states. The Arab League, the second oldest continuously exist...

The disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume asserts the opp...

Virtual America traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past several centu...

What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national b...