Routledge Studies in Anthropology
The Trouble With Art: An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism
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By Roger Sansi, Jonas Tinius
October 31, 2024
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its...
Knots: Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought
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By David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman
October 08, 2024
Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island ...
Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
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By Deborah Pellow, Suzanne Scheld
October 04, 2024
This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition ...
UFOs, the Absurd, and the Limit of Anthropological Knowledge: Imagining the Impossible in Chile
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By Diana Espírito Santo
September 20, 2024
This book offers an ethnographic and conceptual analysis of contemporary UFO phenomena, focusing specifically on Chilean ufology and the ufological “absurd”, nonsensical instances for their experiencers in which there is no conceptual way out. It asks how anthropology can come to terms with what is...
Human Trafficking, Structural Violence, and Resilience: Ethnographic Life Narratives from the Philippines
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By Amie L. Lennox
May 27, 2024
This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions which facilitate and maintain this exploitation. Through a combination of ethnographic research and life-narrative interviews, the book tells the stories of those who have ...
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures
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By EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Silvia Posocco
September 25, 2023
This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of ...
Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images
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By Paolo Fortis, Susanne Küchler
September 26, 2022
This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective. ...
The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union: Village Fascists and their Rivals
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By Juraj Buzalka
April 29, 2022
Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of protest and considers how the origins of political movements – progressive and reactionary – derive from resilient agrarian features. It draws attention to how the legacy of rural socialist ...
Surfaces: Transformations of Body, Materials and Earth
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By Mike Anusas, Cristián Simonetti
December 13, 2021
In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and ...
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand: Fitting In and Sticking Out
1st Edition
By Anjalee Cohen
December 13, 2021
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies, and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation ...
Amerindian Socio-Cosmologies between the Andes, Amazonia and Mesoamerica: Toward an Anthropological Understanding of the Isthmo–Colombian Area
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By Ernst Halbmayer
September 30, 2021
This book offers a new anthropological understanding of the socio-cosmological and ontological characteristics of the Isthmo–Colombian Area, beyond established theories for Amazonia, the Andes and Mesoamerica.It focuses on a core region that has been largely neglected by comparative anthropology in...
Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers
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By David Zeitlyn
September 30, 2021
This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked and life histories to help understand the perspective of the ...