Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
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By Nauja Kleist, Dorte Thorsen
June 06, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of...
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
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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
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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 ...
Anthropology in the Making: Research in Health and Development
1st Edition
By Laurent Vidal
December 18, 2017
In Anthropology in the Making, Laurent Vidal takes the reader into the world of research in the fields of health and development, providing a fresh and provocative perspective on the practice of anthropology. This volume investigates the “science of otherness” across four multi-disciplinary ...
Diagnostic Controversy: Cultural Perspectives on Competing Knowledge in Healthcare
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By Carolyn Smith-Morris
December 18, 2017
This collection is dedicated to the diagnostic moment and its unrivaled influence on encompassment and exclusion in health care. Diagnosis is seen as both an expression and a vehicle of biomedical hegemony, yet it is also a necessary and speculative tool for the identification of and response to ...
Environmentalism, Ethical Trade, and Commodification: Technologies of Value and the Forest Stewardship Council in Chile
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By Adam Henne
December 18, 2017
This book explores the global connections between Chilean landscapes and Northern consumers embodied by the Forest Stewardship Council logo, the green seal of approval for certified sustainably-produced "good wood." How do we decide what makes good forestry? What knowledges and values are expressed...
Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research: Tensions and Positionings
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By Robert E. Rinehart, elke emerald, Rangi Matamua
December 18, 2017
The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, ...
HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine: Anthropological Complicities
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By Graham Fordham
December 18, 2017
Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit...
Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach
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By Susan Greenwood, Erik D. Goodwyn
December 18, 2017
How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered...