European Association of Social Anthropologists
Alcohol, Gender and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
July 12, 2022
Europeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol, and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural, religious, and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups ...
Conceptualizing Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Kuper
May 16, 2014
The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view ...
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
1st Edition
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By Fiona Bowie
November 22, 2004
Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which ...
Realizing Community: Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments
1st Edition
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By Vered Amit
March 22, 2002
'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses...
Anthropology of Violence and Conflict
1st Edition
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By Bettina Schmidt, Ingo Schroeder
April 05, 2001
Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such...
Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective
1st Edition
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By John Knight
January 26, 2001
Wild animals raid crops, attack livestock, and sometimes threaten people. Conflicts with wildlife are widespread, assume a variety of forms, and elicit a range of human responses. Wildlife pests are frequently demonized and resisted by local communities while routinely 'controlled' by state ...
Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy
1st Edition
By Marilyn Strathern
September 08, 2000
Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought?We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountability for our behaviour and actions. Audit cultures pervade in the workplace, our governmental and public institutions as well ...
Gender, Agency and Change: Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
By Victoria Goddard
August 24, 2000
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be ...
Dividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
1st Edition
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By Peter P. Schweitzer
April 26, 2000
This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's ...
Constructing the Field: Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World
1st Edition
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By Vered Amit
November 11, 1999
Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the ...
Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development: Knowledge and sentiments in conflict
1st Edition
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By Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren
October 01, 1998
This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and ...
Locality and Belonging
1st Edition
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By Nadia Lovell
October 01, 1998
Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and...