Anthropology category: 10809 books
The Good Child
Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing...
Home Spaces, Street Styles
Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s.
The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London’s African locations,...
Pilgrims of Love
The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"... will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi...
Qualitative Research in Gambling
Exploring the production and consumption of risk
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon....
Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
Law and Disorder in the West Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
As frequent intermediaries between Israeli military authorities and Palestinian citizens, Palestinian lawyers stand close to the fault line dividing Israeli and Palestinian societies. The conflicts and tensions they experience in their profession mirror the larger conflicts between the two societies....
Burgundy
A Global Anthropology of Place and Taste
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of terroir, and its transnational deployment in China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. It demystifies the terroir ideology by providing a unique long-term...
An Appreciation of Difference
WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The work of renowned Australian anthropologist WEH Stanner is given historical and analytical context in this collection of contributions from some of Australia’s leading academics in the field of Aboriginal studies. Educated by pioneers of anthropology, including Bronislaw Malinowski, Stanner undertook...
Greater Ethiopia
The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite...
Red Flags and Lace Coiffes
Identity and Survival in a Breton Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
This book explores the question of why fishing communities continue their struggle to survive, despite often calamitous changes in ecology and economy. Using historical ethnography as a lens through which to understand how fishers of the Bigouden region of France and their families have reinvented...
Global Health Inequities
A Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Despite living in a 'globalized' world where advances in medicine, technology and science come at an ever-increasing pace, there exist staggering inequalities in health. Even as we celebrate new pharmaceutical developments, access to already-existing medicines is hindered by economic and political...
World Heritage and Human Rights
Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda. This interdisciplinary book combines a state of the art review of World Heritage policy and practice at the global level with ethnographic case studies from the Asia-Pacific...
The Pleasure of the Crown
Anthropology, Law and First Nations
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
A comprehensive look at how Canadian, particularly British Columbian, society reveals itself” through its courtroom performances in Aboriginal title litigation. Focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case, the book traces the trial of Delgamuukw. v. Regina from 1987 and 1991...
Indian Fashion
Tradition, Innovation, Style
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Fashion in India is distinctly unique, in its aesthetics, systems, designers and influences. Indian Fashion is the first study of its kind to examine the social, political, global and local elements that give shape to this multifaceted center. Spanning India's long historical contribution to global...
by Mukulika Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Why India Votes? offers a fascinating account of the Indian electorate through a series of comprehensive ethnographic explorations conducted across the country — Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. It probes...