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Gabriele Marranci

Jihad Beyond Islam

PaperbackEngels9781845201586 1-5-2006

Jihad' is a highly charged word. Often mistranslated as 'Holy War', it has become synonymous with terrorism. Current political events have entirely failed to take account of the subtlety and complexity of jihad. Meer

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Katie Featherstone

Risky Relations

PaperbackEngels9781845201791 1-11-2005

Increasingly more conditions are now being identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major consequences for social relations and self-identity. Meer

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World Anthropologies

GebondenEngels9781845201906 1-2-2006

Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. Meer

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Brian Moeran

Business of Ethnography

PaperbackEngels9781845201951 1-2-2005

Can an anthropologist help us understand the world of business? Armed with this question, veteran anthropologist Brian Moeran embarks on an in-depth study of cultural production and creative industries in Japan. Meer

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Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen

Polygamy

GebondenEngels9781845202200 1-4-2008

Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Meer

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Jeremy Gilbert

Anticapitalism and Culture

GebondenEngels9781845202293 1-9-2008

What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century?Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Meer

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Anthropology of Ireland

PaperbackEngels9781845202392 1-9-2006

Where and what is Ireland?--What are the identities of the people of Ireland?--How has European Union membership shaped Irish people's lives and interests? Meer

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E. R. Leach

Political Systems of Highland Burma

PaperbackEngels9781845202774 1-1-1973

Political Systems of Highland Burma Meer

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Arguments with Ethnography

PaperbackEngels9781845202804 1-1-1999

A critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples. Meer

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Gabriele Marranci

Anthropology of Islam

GebondenEngels9781845202842 1-3-2008

An increasing number of people have questions about Islam and Muslims. But how can we approach and study Islam after September 11th? Which is the best methodology to understand an Islam that is changing in a globalized world? Meer

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Maurice Bloch

Essays on Cultural Transmission

PaperbackEngels9781845202873 1-7-2005

This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. Meer

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Debra Benita Shaw

Technoculture

GebondenEngels9781845202972 1-7-2008

We live in a world where science and technology shape the global economy and everyday culture, where new biotechnologies are changing what we eat and how we can reproduce, and where email, mobiles and the internet have revolutionised the ways we communicate with each other and engage with the world outside us. Meer

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Sensible Objects

PaperbackEngels9781845203245 1-7-2006

Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. Meer

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Roots of Human Sociality

PaperbackEngels9781845203948 1-9-2006

This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Meer

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Locating the Field

GebondenEngels9781845204020 1-6-2006

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork. Meer

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Alan Barnard

Anthropology and the Bushman

PaperbackEngels9781845204297 1-4-2007

The Bushman' is a perennial but changing image. The transformation of that image is important. It symbolizes the perception of Bushman or San society, of the ideas and values of ethnographers who have worked with Bushman peoples, and those of other anthropologists who use this work. Meer

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Navtej K. Purewal

Son Preference

PaperbackEngels9781845204686 1-4-2010

The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has existed historically in many parts of Asia, its contemporary expressions illustrate the gendered outcomes of social power relations as they interact and intersect with culture, economy and technologies. Meer

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Communication, Social Structure and Development in Rural Malaysia

GebondenEngels9781845204778 1-1-1982

This is an important innovative analysis of communication and society in Pahang, West Malaysia, based on fieldwork carried out in Kampung Kuala Bera. Dr Wilder is concerned with communication networks of all kinds as found in a long-established Malay village, including the uses of language, small-scale (kinship and village-based) networks, and higher-level systems (the district and the nation as a whole). Meer

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People on the Move

GebondenEngels9781845204808 1-8-2008

Europe has a long history of state-led population displacement on ethnic grounds. The nationalist argument of ethnic homogeneity has been a crucial factor in the mapping of the continent. Meer

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Anthropology and Science

PaperbackEngels9781845205003 1-3-2008

What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? Meer

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