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Beyond the Genre
Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers
What is the value of travel writing in a digital age? This volume compares printed books and travel blogs to explore how media choices impact writing and travel. Based on interviews with Western and Chinese writers in China, it deconstructs the genre’s traditional ethnocentrism.
What is the value of travel writing in a digital age? This volume compares printed books and travel blogs to explore how media choices impact writing and travel. Based on interviews with Western and Chinese writers in China, it deconstructs the genre’s traditional ethnocentrism.
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Becoming an Anthropologist
A Memoir and a Guide to Anthropology
An anthropologist's vivid memoirs recount experiences that are hilarious, dangerous, and expertly explored. From a WWII working-class community to cultures around the world, his insights illuminate other societies and our own. A stimulating introduction to social anthropology.
An anthropologist’s vivid memoirs recount experiences that are hilarious, dangerous, and expertly explored. From a WWII working-class community to cultures around the world, his insights illuminate other societies and our own. A stimulating introduction to social anthropology.
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Humans, Other Beings and the Environment
Harurwa (Edible Stinkbugs) and Environmental Conservation in Southeastern Zimbabwe
Mawere presents an ethnographic case study of the possibilities for the symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests, and highlights the continuum among humans, insects and environmental conservation outcomes in rural Zimbabwe.
Mawere presents an ethnographic case study of the possibilities for the symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests, and highlights the continuum among humans, insects and environmental conservation outcomes in rural Zimbabwe.
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Classrooms and Playgrounds
Mapping Educational Change, Kerala
Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.
Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.
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The Nomadic Subject
Postcolonial Identities on the Margins
This book explores the image of the Traveller, nomad, migrant, and outsider amid cultural diaspora and globalisation. With a focus on the experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma, these essays resonate with the hybrid narratives of many Western countries today.
This book explores the image of the Traveller, nomad, migrant, and outsider amid cultural diaspora and globalisation. With a focus on the experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma, these essays resonate with the hybrid narratives of many Western countries today.
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Lying Beyond Scruples
The Open Lie and Transparent Manipulation in the Age of Mentirocracy
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
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How does Europe’s economic crisis affect industry on a grassroots level? This book explores the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and its industry's downturn through the experiences of its inhabitants to understand the challenges Italy and Europe will face.
How does Europe’s economic crisis affect industry on a grassroots level? This book explores the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and its industry’s downturn through the experiences of its inhabitants to understand the challenges Italy and Europe will face.
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Associations and Other Groups in Science
An Historical and Contemporary Perspective
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
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Anthropology and Development in a Globalized India
An Ethnography of Sericulture from the South
This book offers an anthropological and sociological view of sericulture in India, analyzing its emergence as a vital enterprise for rural development and employment. This interdisciplinary study is useful to scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, and Development Studies.
This book offers an anthropological and sociological view of sericulture in India, analyzing its emergence as a vital enterprise for rural development and employment. This interdisciplinary study is useful to scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, and Development Studies.
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Narratives and Songs from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste
Voices of the Hunting Bows
This first-ever multilingual archive of endangered oral traditions from Atauro, Timor-Leste, was created in collaboration with the island's communities. Discover tales of the island's origin—revealed when arrows pierce the sea—alongside traditional songs and cultural texts.
This first-ever multilingual archive of endangered oral traditions from Atauro, Timor-Leste, was created in collaboration with the island’s communities. Discover tales of the island’s origin—revealed when arrows pierce the sea—alongside traditional songs and cultural texts.
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These essays document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Based on anthropological fieldwork in a remote Greek village in the 1970s, they focus on family, kinship, and gender, and the profound transformation of rural society as it was occurring at the time.
These essays document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Based on anthropological fieldwork in a remote Greek village in the 1970s, they focus on family, kinship, and gender, and the profound transformation of rural society as it was occurring at the time.
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This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters' special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.
This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters’ special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.
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This double-blinded peer-reviewed journal offers a forum for practitioners, students, community members, and faculty interested in all facets of business anthropology to exchange ideas and research.
This double-blinded peer-reviewed journal offers a forum for practitioners, students, community members, and faculty interested in all facets of business anthropology to exchange ideas and research.
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This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
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In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities of gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies, a struggle for survival and status. This volume highlights these realities through four decades of empirical anthropological research across India, considering their historical roots.
In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities of gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies, a struggle for survival and status. This volume highlights these realities through four decades of empirical anthropological research across India, considering their historical roots.
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This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.
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The Lionfish Effect
Reflections on Human-Lionfish Relations in The Bahamas
In The Bahamas, the invasive lionfish is more than an environmental threat—it's a political one. This book explores how efforts to control the lionfish reveal the ways societies adapt to planetary change, and how these adaptations are mediated by class, race, and power.
In The Bahamas, the invasive lionfish is more than an environmental threat—it’s a political one. This book explores how efforts to control the lionfish reveal the ways societies adapt to planetary change, and how these adaptations are mediated by class, race, and power.
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In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
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