Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition
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By Allan Charles Dawson, Laura Zanotti, Ismael Vaccaro
December 18, 2017
This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. ...
Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe: The New Strangers
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune
December 18, 2017
Bringing together case studies and theory, this book is the first in-depth qualitative study of student migration within Europe. Drawing on the theory of 'the stranger' as a sociological type, the author suggests that the travelling European students can be seen as a new migratory elite. The book ...
The Anthropology of Postindustrialism: Ethnographies of Disconnection
1st Edition
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By Ismael Vaccaro, Krista Harper, Seth Murray
December 18, 2017
This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the ...
Islam, Standards, and Technoscience: In Global Halal Zones
1st Edition
By Johan Fischer
May 24, 2017
This book explores the role of halal production, trade, and standards based on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe. It explains how the global markets for halal comprise divergent zones in which Islam, markets, regulatory institutions, and technoscience interact and diverge....
Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State: The Rising Tide
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By Peter Rudiak-Gould
October 12, 2015
The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation,...
Times of Security: Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future
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By Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen
September 29, 2015
In the current world disorder, security is on everyone’s lips. But what is security from a cross-cultural perspective? How is it imagined and experienced by people on the ground? Crucially, what visions of the future are at stake in people’s potentially divergent concerns with security: what, and ...
Animism and the Question of Life
1st Edition
By Istvan Praet
September 16, 2015
The central purpose of this book is to help change the terms of the debate on animism, a classic theme in anthropology. It combines some of the finest ethnographic material currently available (including firsthand research on the Chachi of Ecuador) with an unusually broad geographic scope (the ...
Anthropology and Nature
1st Edition
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By Kirsten Hastrup
September 16, 2015
On the basis of empirical studies, this book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book may be read as a form of scholarly "edgework," resisting institutional divisions and conceptual routines in the interest of exploring new ...
Islam, Development, and Urban Women’s Reproductive Practices
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By Cortney Hughes Rinker
September 16, 2015
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic ...
Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions
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By Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
September 08, 2015
This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the ...
Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life
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By Susanna Trnka, Christine Dureau, Julie Park
September 08, 2015
What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms ...
Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives
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By Bonnie L. Hewlett
May 21, 2015
As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...