Global Issues
Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice
1st Edition
By Judith Kapferer
January 30, 2025
- Is there such a thing as an Australian national identity? Or is Australia just a melting pot of different peoples and cultures without a common culture? - What is distinctive and what is universal about everyday life in Australia? In a post-colonial age of globalizing economies, the political ...
The Force of Irony: Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers
1st Edition
By Gabriel Torres
January 30, 2025
Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process. Challenging the belief that ...
Guinea Pigs: Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador
1st Edition
By Eduardo P. Archetti
September 01, 2001
Guinea pigs have been reared and eaten by indigenous people in the Andes since ancient times, and it seemed rational to development planners to ‘modernize' their production. When these development projects ran into trouble, a team of anthropologists was invited to study the reasons for this lack of...
Sacrifice as Terror: The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
1st Edition
By Christopher C. Taylor
August 01, 2001
In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting ...
Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina
1st Edition
By Eduardo P. Archetti
March 01, 1999
The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances ...
Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology
1st Edition
By Gavin Smith
February 01, 1999
Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global ...
Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation-Building and Compromise in Mauritius
1st Edition
By Thomas Hylland Eriksen
July 01, 1998
This book seeks to enhance comparative understandings of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization. Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island-state with a population of about one million, provides a fascinating...
African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology
1st Edition
By Peter Rigby
October 01, 1996
This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and ...