Routledge Focus on Anthropology
Anthropology and Disaster in Japan: Cultural Contributions to Recovery after the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami
1st Edition
By Hiroki Takakura
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on the 3.11 disaster in Japan, involving a powerful earthquake and tsunami, from an anthropological perspective. It critically reflects on the challenges of conducting anthropological research when encountering disaster at home and the position of social scientist as sufferer. ...
Masking in Pandemic U.S.: Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection
1st Edition
By Urmila Mohan
May 27, 2024
This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans responded to this illness as unique subjects navigating the flux of social and corporeal boundaries, supporting certain beliefs and acting to shape them as ...
Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants: Disciplining Time
1st Edition
By Matt Hodges
January 09, 2023
Biotechnology and the Politics of Plants explores the mysterious phenomenon of ‘apomixis’, the ability of certain plants to ‘self-clone’, and its potential as a revolutionary tool for agriculture and enhancing food security, that may soon be a reality. Through historical anthropological and ...
Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops
1st Edition
By Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier
March 31, 2021
Aerial Imagination in Cuba is a visual, ethnographic, sensorial, and poetic engagement with how Cubans imagine the sky as a medium that allows things to circulate. What do wi-fi antennas, cactuses, pigeons, lottery, and congas have in common? This book offers a series of illustrated ethno-fictional...
The Primate Zoonoses: Culture Change and Emerging Diseases
1st Edition
By Loretta A. Cormier, Pauline E. Jolly
June 30, 2020
This book offers an accessible and up-to-date reference on primate zoonoses. Recent years have witnessed a rise in human diseases zoonotically transferred from animals, with wild primates implicated in the spread of numerous newly emerging infections. The authors go beyond simply providing an ...