Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Knots: Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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 ...
Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal
1st Edition
By Laura Cochrane
May 17, 2019
Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal explores the historical, religious, cultural and economic contexts of Islam in Senegal through the narrative first-hand accounts of people’s everyday lives. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of seven years, the result is a ...
Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
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By Susana Narotzky, Victoria Goddard
July 31, 2018
Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017 This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious ...
An Anthropological Economy of Debt
1st Edition
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By Bernard Hours, Pepita Ould Ahmed
December 18, 2017
Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of what exactly? This volume analyzes debt as a political and social construct, with a multiplicity of purposes and agents. All of these are vectors of ...
An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
1st Edition
By Kathleen Richardson
December 18, 2017
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in ...
Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds
1st Edition
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By Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, Eirini Kampriani
December 18, 2017
Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such movement raises questions about the nature of therapeutic citizenship, how and where structurally vulnerable populations obtain care, and the political ...