ASA Monographs
Thinking Through Tourism
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Scott, Tom Selwyn
June 01, 2011
The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes. An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as ...
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
1st Edition
By Pnina Werbner
April 01, 2009
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the...
Creativity and Cultural Improvisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Hallam, Tim Ingold
April 01, 2008
There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. The book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in...
Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey, Peter Wade
March 01, 2008
What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual ...
Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Coleman, Peter Collins
June 01, 2007
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. The nature of 'locality' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must now...
The Qualities of Time: Anthropological Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy James, David Mills
December 15, 2005
This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives. Time is not just an abstract principle we live by or a local cultural construct: it is shaped, punctuated, organized, and ...
Human Rights in Global Perspective: Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon P. Mitchell, Richard A. Wilson
June 27, 2003
In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of ...
Participating in Development: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Sillitoe
August 23, 2002
Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies have frequently not met the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. Development agencies have been searching for sometime for alternative ...
Elite Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore
May 31, 2002
Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings.Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, ...
An Anthropology of Indirect Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Joy Hendry, C.W. Watson
April 30, 2001
Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called 'indirection'. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many...
The Anthropology of Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Cheater
March 31, 1999
An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its basis. It takes material from the Middle East, Canada, Columbia, Australasia and various parts of Europe and Africa. It looks particularly at the ...
Ritual, Performance, Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Felicia Hughes-Freeland
December 12, 1997
Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brings a more anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed ...