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‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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‘You Don’t Know’

Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Nielsen, J. A. E.

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

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Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford

Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)

In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributors’ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.

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Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

The first edition of All Tomorrow’s Cultures explored the legacy of futures-thinking in anthropology and marked the beginning of a resurgence of interest in anthropological futures. The new edition has been updated to reflect some of the outpouring of work since then, particularly in science and technology studies and in anthropological analyses of indigenous futures.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 2000
And Keep Your Powder Dry

An Anthropologist Looks at America

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an eclectic collection of theoretical concepts that over many years he has found helpful.

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Published June 2013
An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World

An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge

Corsín Jiménez, A.

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The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Wullf, H. (ed)

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? Although academic writing is an anthropologist’s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction. This book explores how writing shapes anthropologists and their discipline.

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Published October 2000
Anthropologists in a Wider World

Essays on Field Research

Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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Published July 2003
Anthropology & Law

Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

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Anthropology & Philosophy

Dialogues on Trust and Hope

Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Tim Ingold has raised many questions which are crucial for anthropology as a discipline, such as whether ethnography is central to the subject, and how imagination, reality and truth are joined in anthropological enterprises. His interventions have impacted anthropologists and scholars at large. This volume contributes to the debate about the interrelationships between ethnography and anthropology and takes it to a new plane.

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Anthropology and Nostalgia

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Anthropologists are realizing that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of identity, politics and history making. Contributors to this volume explore nostalgic narratives and practices in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Theory and Methodology

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Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Anthropology as Ethics

Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

Evens, T. M. S.

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Anthropology Now and Next

Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz

Eriksen, T. H., Garsten, C. & Randeria, S. (eds)

The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a world of global connectedness and accelerated change.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)

This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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The Anthropology of Moralities

Heintz, M. (Ed.)

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An Anthropology of War

Views from the Frontline

Waterston, A. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective

Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity

Bayly, S.

Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Becoming Other

Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self

Berliner, D.

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing 'exo-experiences.'

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Literary Studies

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Being and Becoming

Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra

Elkholy, R.

In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Between Anthropology and Psychiatry

Littlewood, R. & Dein, S.

Bridging Psychology and Anthropology, this volume critiques dominant models such as psychoanalysis and the biopsychosocial framework. Drawing on cross-cultural case studies –from Hasidic healing to jinn possession, it argues for plural approaches that integrate biological, psychodynamic and sociocultural perspectives to better understand human experience.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Theory and Methodology
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Beyond Writing Culture

Current Intersections of Epistemologies and Representational Practices

Zenker, O. & Kumoll, K. (eds)

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Published November 2024
Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism

Evocative Moments in Doing Ethnography

Shokeid, M.

Based on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2003
Beyond Rationalism

Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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Boundless Worlds

An Anthropological Approach to Movement

Kirby, P. W. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

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Bourdieu and Social Space

Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements

Reed-Danahay, D.

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies Sociology

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Published December 2005
The Categorical Impulse

Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior

Ellen, R.

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Published January 2001
Categories and Classifications

Maussian Reflections on the Social

Allen, N. J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published December 2004
Categories of Self

Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual

Celtel, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published December 2005
Celebrating Transgression

Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Cultures
A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Koepping

Rao, U. & Hutnyk, J. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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Centralizing Fieldwork

Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

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The Challenge of Epistemology

Anthropological Perspectives

Toren, C. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

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Published October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender

Shaw, A. & Ardener, S. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology

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Chicanery

Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960

Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.

Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

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The Children of Gregoria

Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family

Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.

The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies

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Conceptualizing Iranian Anthropology

Past and Present Perspectives

Nadjmabadi, S. (ed)

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Published December 1999
Conceptualizing Religion

Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories

Saler, B.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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Contemplating Historical Consciousness

Notes from the Field

Clark, A. & Peck, C. L. (eds)

Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three decades of applied research to tease out what has been learned from the field. Leading scholars from around the world reflect on their practice as historians, ethnographers, social scientists and demographers in order to explore the possibilities and limitations of research into historical consciousness.

Subjects: History (General) Theory and Methodology

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Contemporary Religiosities

Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State

Kapferer, B., Telle, K. & Eriksen, A. (Eds.)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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Contrarian Anthropology

The Unwritten Rules of Academia

Nader, L.

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published July 2004
Corporate Scandal

Global Corporatism against Society

Gledhill, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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Correcting the Record

Essays on the History of American Anthropology

Lewis, H. S.

The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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Published May 2005
Critical Junctions

Anthropology and History beyond the Cultural Turn

Kalb, D. & Tak, H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History: 20th Century to Present

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Critique of Identity Thinking

Jackson, M.

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Culture and Rhetoric

Strecker, I. & Tyler, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published April 2008
Culture and the Changing Environment

Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Casimir, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Culture Wars

Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts

James, D. Plaice, E. & Toren C. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric

The Texture of Political Action

Hariman, R. & Cintron, R. (eds)

By emphasizing the texture of political action, this volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic dimension of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. An array of case studies provide an account of how change is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

Carrithers, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Cutting Cosmos

Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot

Mikkelsen, H. H.

Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Debating Authenticity

Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective

Fillitz, T. & Saris, A. J. (ed)

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Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology

Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture

Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)

Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.

Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Deleuzian Intersections

Science, Technology, Anthropology

Jensen, C. B. & Rödje, K. (Eds.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Democracy's Paradox

Populism and its Contemporary Crisis

Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2005
Development-induced Displacement

Problems, Policies and People

de Wet, Chris (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published May 2008
Difficult Folk?

A Political History of Social Anthropology

Mills, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Dreaming and the Imagination

Theoretical Intersections in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Newsom, M. D. (eds)

Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published October 2002
Durkheim Today

Pickering, W. S. F. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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A Durkheimian Quest

Solidarity and the Sacred

Watts Miller, W.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa

An Axel Sommerfelt Collection

Sommerfelt, A., (au) Sommerfelt, T., Jakoubek, M., & Eriksen, T. H. (eds)

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, S. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2003
Educational Histories of European Social Anthropology

Dracklé, D., Edgar, I. R. & Schippers, T. K. (eds)

Subjects: Educational Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2024
Egalitarian Dynamics

Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is anthropology’s one of most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality. Engaging with topical issues across the globe – from neuroscience to open access publishing and refugee experience in Europe, it launches Turner’s fundamental work into the future.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Elsdon Best

Holman, J. P. & Delgado Rosa, F.

This volume is dedicated to the New Zealander ethnographer Elsdon Best (1856-1931) who is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau.

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Empire and Eduards Volters

The Ethnography of Lithuanians and Latvians, 1882-1941

Savoniakaitė, V.

Eduards Volters was a linguist, ethnographer, and archeologist with the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and considered one of the founders of literate Lithuanian and Latvian communities. This study compares various historical and theoretical contexts in anthropology and decolonization to reveal how Volters reconciled his ethnographic work within the political goals of the empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Engaging Evil

A Moral Anthropology

Olsen, W. C. & Csordas, T. J. (eds)

Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology Anthropology of Religion

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Engendering Forced Migration

Theory and Practice

Indra, D. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology

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Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Essay on Time

A Brief Study of the Representation of Time in Religion and Magic

Hubert, H.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Ethics in the Field

Contemporary Challenges

MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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The Ethics of Knowledge Creation

Transactions, Relations, and Persons

Josephides, L. & Grønseth, A. S. (eds)

This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into ‘universal knowledge’, and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation examines how these transactions are then situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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An Ethnographic Chiefdom

Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)

Balaš, N.

The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Ethnographic Practice in the Present

Melhuus, M., Mitchell, J., & Wulff, H. (Eds.)

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The Ethnographic Self as Resource

Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography

Collins, P. & Gallinat, A. (eds)

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European Anthropologies

Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)

By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History

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Published August 2007
The European Puzzle

The Political Structuring of Cultural Identities at a Time of Transition

Demossier, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Exceptional Experiences

Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)

Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2005
Existential Anthropology

Events, Exigencies, and Effects

Jackson, M.

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Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)

Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Mimica, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published March 2015
Extraordinary Encounters

Authenticity and the Interview

Smith, K., Staples, J. & Rapport, N. (eds)

The interview creates a context of interaction with a particular authenticity to experience. Contributors explore how the interview is experienced as a particular kind of knowing within which personal, biographic, and social norms are explored and interrogated, providing direction and awareness for future encounters.

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Published July 2025
Fabrics of Anthropological Knowledge

Changing Perspectives in Europe and Beyond

Birkalan-Gedik, H. & Dimpflmeier, F. (eds)

Challenging the long-standing anthropological centre-periphery dichotomy and examining the transnational circulations of people, concepts and practices, this volume critiques and brings together a nuanced understanding of how anthropological knowledge is produced and circulated across the globe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus

Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing

Doerr, N. M.

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Finding Home in Europe

Chronicles of Global Migrants

Pérez Murcia, L. E. & Bonfanti, S. (eds)

Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over 200 in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home is experienced by those who move.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2005
Free Will, Consciousness and Self

Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology

Bertelsen, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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From Triads to Pentads

Modelling Myth and Kinship in the Work of N.J. Allen

Allen, N. J. (au) & Parkin, R. (ed)

N.J. (‘Nick’) Allen had an extensive academic career, which for the most part was spent in Oxford. He passed away in 2020. This edited volume brings together a selection of his anthropological papers. It follows key areas of his research in which his contributions were novel, innovative, stimulating and plausible.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2024
Frontier Ethnographies

Deconstructing Research Experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Choudhury, N. & Schmeding, A. (eds)

Frontier Ethnographies explores the ethnographic edges of contemporary anthropological inquiry in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Through examining moments of insecurity, vulnerability, doubt, fear, failure, and daydreaming, the volume reflects on the researchers’ experiences and challenges of doing field research in frontier settings.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2007
The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’

Nonini, D. M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2004
Globalization

Some Critical Issues

Chun, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published December 2004
Grammars of Identity / Alterity

A Structural Approach

Baumann, G. & Gingrich, A. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Heading for the Scene of the Crash

The Cultural Analysis of America

Drummond, L.

Refashioning cultural analysis into a hard-edged tool for the study of American society and culture, Lee Drummond explores the 9/11 terrorist attacks, abortion, sports doping, and the Jonestown massacre-suicides, providing the basis for a new theory of culture grounded in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Rio, K. & Smedal, O. H. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published November 2007
A History of Oxford Anthropology

Rivière, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

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Published June 2007
Holding Worlds Together

Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging

Lien, M. E. & Melhuus, M. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Holistic Anthropology

Emergence and Convergence

Parkin, D. & Ulijaszek, S. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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Hope and Insufficiency

Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison

Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)

Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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How Enemies Are Made

Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict

Schlee, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Human Nature as Capacity

Transcending Discourse and Classification

Rapport, N. (ed.)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Humanism Revisited

An Anthropological Perspective

Pinxten, R.

As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

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Published January 2001
Hunting the Gatherers

Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s

O'Hanlon, M. & Welsch, R. (eds)

Subjects: Museum Studies Theory and Methodology Colonial History Heritage Studies

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Forthcoming March 2026
Ibn Khaldun

Rosen, L.

Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond his North African homeland. His holistic approach foreshadowed modern social science, blending direct observation with cultural interpretation. A vital precursor to contemporary anthropology, his insights on solidarity, religion, and society remain relevant today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2007
Identifying with Freedom

Indonesia after Suharto

Day, T (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published March 2007
Identity and Networks

Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures

Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Identity Matters

Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict

Peacock, J. M., Thornton, P. M., and Inman, P. B. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published November 2003
Illness and Irony

On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Lambek, M. & Antze, P. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published December 2017
Indigeneity on the Move

Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept

Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)

“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, aiming to convey a theoretical and empirical overview of indigeneity in order to investigate the concept’s scientific and political potential.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published May 2006
An Introduction to Two Theories of Social Anthropology

Descent Groups and Marriage Alliance

Dumont, L.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published October 2003
An Invitation to Anthropology

The Structure, Evolution and Cultural Identity of Human Societies

Llobera, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published May 2008
Knowing How to Know

Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Present

Halstead, N., Hirsch, E., & Okely, J. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Learning Religion

Anthropological Approaches

Berliner, D. & Sarró, R. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published April 2010
The Life of Property

House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General) Sociology

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Published March 2003
Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition

Parkin, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published October 2004
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Yamashita, S., Bosco, J., & Eades, J.S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published September 2006
The Manchester School

Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology

Evens, T. M. S. & Handelman, D. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2007
The Manual of Ethnography

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Published December 1998
Marcel Mauss

A Centenary Tribute

James, W. & Allen, N. J. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2017
Mary Douglas

Understanding Social Thought and Conflict

6, P. & Richards, P.

This valuable book introduces Mary Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. The authors effectively demonstrate how Douglas laid out the agenda for revitalizing social science by reworking Durkheim’s legacy for today, and reviews the growing body of research across the social sciences which has used, tested or developed her approach.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Mary Douglas

Richards, P. & 6, P.

This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Max Gluckman

Macmillan, H.

This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Methodologies of Mobility

Ethnography and Experiment

Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2010
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization

A Critical Stance

Glick Schiller, N. & Faist, T. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2017
The Mirror of the Medieval

An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination

Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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Published October 1998
Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Handelman, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published October 2020
Moebius Anthropology

Essays on the Forming of Form

Handelman, D., Shapiro, M. (ed), & Feldman, J. (ed)

Don Handelman’s groundbreaking work in anthropology is showcased in this collection of his most powerful essays. The book looks at the intellectual and spiritual roots of Handelman’s initiation into anthropology; his work on ritual and on “bureaucratic logic”; analyses of cosmology; and innovative essays on Anthropology and Deleuzian thinking.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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Published October 2002
Montesquieu

His Contribution to the Establishment of Political Science

Durkheim, E.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Moral Anthropology

A Critique

Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)

A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume aims to reconceptualise the discipline of anthropology in a radically critical way.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Multicultural Dialogue

Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts

Gressgård, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)

Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published May 2006
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain

Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition

Baca, G.

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published April 2005
The Nature of Sociology

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Published August 2006
Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond

Perspectives from Social Anthropology

Gingrich, A. & Banks, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published August 2005
Oligarchs and Oligopolies

New Formations of Global Power

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification

Chun, A.

An audacious critique of the issues that have plagued culturalization in anthropological thought and writing. Allen Chun argues that disciplinary knowledge has always been embedded in changing contexts of sociopolitical practice and that neglect of its underlying politics gives different meaning to anthropology’s objective fallacy.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2008
On the Margins of Religion

Pine, F. & Pina-Cabral, J. de (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2005
On the Order of Chaos

Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos

Mosko, M. S. & Damon, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published June 2024
One Hundred Years of Argonauts

Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology

Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)

Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Published October 1999
Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology

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Published August 2024
Oscar Lewis in Cuba

La Partida Final

Rigdon, S. M.

The experience of Oscar Lewis’ Project Cuba offers lessons on the difficulties of doing social science research in any highly surveilled, politically controlled environment however sympathetic the principal investigator.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology

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Other Borders

History, Mobility and Migration of Rudari Families between Romania and Italy

Tosi Cambini, S.

Other Borders is a deeply thorough, multi-site ethnographic research volume that brings forward the rudari lingurari family’s social and economic cultural organization and the mobilities developed in their migratory paths.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology

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Other People's Anthropologies

Ethnographic Practice on the Margins

Boškovic, A. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Our Common Denominator

Human Universals Revisited

Antweiler, C.

Against the backdrop of a discipline focused on difference, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of cross-cultural commonalities -- phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies -- for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published June 2010
Out of the Study and Into the Field

Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology

Parkin, R.& de Sales, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology History (General)

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Forthcoming January 2026
The Paradox of Difference

Moving Beyond Border Crossing, Translanguaging, and Unit Thinking

Doerr, N.

Exploring five paradoxes in how “difference” is constructed and navigated, this book critically examines discourse and practice across race studies, language education, and global mobility, offering fresh insights into the politics of difference and possibilities for alternative engagements.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

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Published March 2006
The Politics of Egalitarianism

Theory and Practice

Solway, J. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology

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The Practice of War

Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

Rao, A., Bollig, M. & Böck, M. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Forthcoming February 2026
Practice Theory and the Biosocial

Microbes, Matter and Milieu

Shove, E., Blue, S. & Kelly, M.

From urban infrastructures to the medieval plague and from antibiotic resistance to epigenetics, this book develops an account of how previous and present arrangements make some futures more likely than others. By demonstrating the relevance of social and practice theories, this study considers questions about how bacteria, viruses, microscopic materials and societies develop in tandem.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Medical Anthropology Sociology
Published October 1999
The Problem of Context

Perspectives from Social Anthropology and Elsewhere

Dilley, R. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2022
Profiles of Anthropological Praxis

An International Casebook

Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press). As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2024
Radcliffe-Brown

Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955

Niehaus, I.

Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of colonialism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Re-Turns, Entanglements and Collaborations

Anthropological Experimentations

Tošić, J., Strasser, S., & Lems, A. (eds)

This collection marks the EASA Book Series’ 50th volume to celebrate collaborative forms of knowledge production in anthropology. It is organized around eight key themes and concepts that have marked anthropological debates in Europe over the past 20 years.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Redescribing Relations

Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics

Lebner, A. (ed)

Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Reflecting on Reflexivity

The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise

Evens, T. M. S., Handelman, D. & Roberts, C. (eds)

Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes. On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes the being and becoming of the human.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2015
Regimes of Ignorance

Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge

Dilley, R. & Kirsch, T. G. (eds)

Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published October 1999
Religion in English Everyday Life

An Ethnographic Approach

Jenkins, T.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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Published February 2004
Researching Food Habits

Methods and Problems

Macbeth, H. & MacClancy, J. (eds)

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2007
Rethinking Migration

New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Portes, A. & DeWind, J. (eds)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Theory and Methodology Development Studies Sociology

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Published September 2005
The Retreat of the Social

The Rise and Rise of Reductionism

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published May 2011
The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture

Meyer, C. & Girke, F. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published September 2025
The Rise and Fall of Community Studies

An Introduction to the Anthropology of Europe

Parkin, R.

This book provides a partial retrospective on the field of anthropology of Europe, offering a rich collection of ethnographic summaries from across the continent. It will be of interest to students and academics seeking a survey of this branch of anthropology, whether for private study or university courses.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Published January 2005
Ritual in Its Own Right

Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Handelman, D. & Lindquist, G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2001
Russian Culture

Mead, M. & Gorer, G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published April 2012
The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

Dousset, L. & Tcherkézoff, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Fieldwork

Laplante, J., Gandsman, A., & Scobie, W. (eds)

Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributor’s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published November 2010
Security and Development

McNeish, J.-A. & Sande Lie, J. H. (eds)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published November 2017
Selfhood and Recognition

Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality

Galuschek, A. C.

The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers

Solving the Existential Puzzle

Djolic, M. R.

A fastidious investigation into the nature of self-identity, Silent Dilemmas of Project Managers uses the context of project management to challenge the perceived separation of objective experience from subjective perception, highlighting how these adopted self-notions act as the object of existential anxiety.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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The Social Origins of Thought

Durkheim, Mauss, and the Category Project

Schick, Johannes F. M.

The Social Origins of Thought explores the Durkheim School’s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project”.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Sociality

New Directions

Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published October 2019
Sometime Kin

Layers of Memory, Boundaries of Ethnography

Wallman, S.

Sometime Kin is the portrait of an Alpine settlement - its history, economy and culture - and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernisation. Against this we see it embrace the ethnographer’s four small children. Sandra Wallman’s account reveals the distortion to ordinary life caused by the intrusion of the anthropologist and the effect of informants observing her.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Reyna, S. P.

Starry Nights formulates something of an un-canon: it critiques postmodernism while devising its own strategy for conducting research. It envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2004
State, Sovereignty, War

Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2000
The Study of Culture At a Distance

Mead, M. & Métraux, R. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published December 2003
Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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eBook available Published September 2024
Subject Lessons

Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment

Forrest, J.

Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways.Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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Suffering and Evil

The Durkheimian Legacy

Pickering, W. S. F. & Rosati, M. (eds)

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Published October 1999
Taboo, Truth and Religion

Adler, J. & Fardon, R. (eds) (Steiner, F.)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology of Religion

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eBook available Published September 2008
Taking Sides

Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Armbruster, H. & Lærke, A. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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Published March 2006
Techniques, Technology and Civilization

Mauss, M.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2001
Themes in French Culture

A Preface to a Study of French Community

Mead, M. & Metraux, R.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published November 2010
Theorising Media and Practice

Bräuchler, B. & Postill, J. (eds)

Subjects: Media Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published May 2022
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America

González Gálvez, M., Di Giminiani, P., & Bacchiddu, G. (eds)

Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories. This collected volume explores how ethnographies of indigenous South America have helped to inspire this analytic shift.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published February 2015
Thinking Through Sociality

An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts

Amit, V. (ed)

Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of older, classical theories of sociality with more recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of topics. Contributors focus on key concepts of sociality — disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network — and how these can be used to think through ethnographic situations.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Time and the Field

Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

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eBook available Published May 2002
Tourism

Between Place and Performance

Coleman, S. & Crang, M. (eds)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2018
Travelling with the Argonauts

Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens

Irek, M.

Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, it considers informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies

Hb
Published July 2024
Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

Lazarsfeld-Jensen, A.

When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

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eBook available Published December 2024
Understanding Business Offenders

A Comparative Analysis of Workplace Deviance, Convenience and Control

Gottschalk, P. & Hamerton, C.

Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology.

Subjects: Sociology Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published August 2013
Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

A Critical Synthesis

Ellen, R., Lycett, S. J., & Johns, S. E. (eds)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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Published September 1996
Understanding Impoverishment

The Consequences of Development-Induced Displacement

McDowell, C. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2025
Understanding Social Images

Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology

Banks, M.
Zeitlyn, D. & El Khachab, C. (eds)

Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published June 2013
Up Close and Personal

On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

Shore, C. & Trnka, S. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published December 2011
War, Technology, Anthropology

Stroeken, K. (ed)

Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Theory and Methodology

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Published October 2007
Ways of Knowing

New Approaches in the Anthropology of Knowledge and Learning

Harris, M. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Educational Studies

Hb
Published April 2015
What Is Existential Anthropology?

Jackson, M. & Piette, A. (eds)

What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published December 2005
Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Marcus, A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Urban Studies Sociology

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eBook available Published June 2018
Who are 'We'?

Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology

Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)

Who do ‘we’ anthropologists think ‘we’ are? Drawing together reflections and ethnographic case studies, this volume explores how the anthropological ‘we’ has been construed, transformed and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. It interrogates how these constructions have influenced the discipline, and opens spaces in which they might be reimagined.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

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eBook available Published July 2022
Working With Diagrams

Engelmann, L., Humphrey, C. & Lynteris, C.

Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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Published July 2005
The World Ahead

An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2004
The World Trade Center and Global Crisis

Some Critical Perspectives

Kapferer, B. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

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‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

Rapport, N.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)

‘You Don’t Know’

Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Nielsen, J. A. E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

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The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Rapport, N.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Adoption, Emotion, and Identity

An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society

Rauchholz, M.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

After Society

Anthropological Trajectories out of Oxford

Pina-Cabral, J. & Bowman, G. (eds)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Alfred Cort Haddon

A Very English Savage

Walsh, C.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

All Tomorrow's Cultures

Anthropological Engagements with the Future

Collins, S. G.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

And Keep Your Powder Dry

An Anthropologist Looks at America

Mead, M.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)

An Anthropological Toolkit

Sixty Useful Concepts

Zeitlyn, D.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World

An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge

Corsín Jiménez, A.

Subject: Theory and Methodology

The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Wullf, H. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Anthropologists in a Wider World

Essays on Field Research

Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Anthropology & Law

Donovan, J.M. & Anderson, III, H.E.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Sociology

Anthropology & Mass Communication

Media and Myth in the New Millennium

Peterson, M.A.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Media Studies

Anthropology & Philosophy

Dialogues on Trust and Hope

Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology

Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent

Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

Ahmad, I. (ed)

Subject: Theory and Methodology

Anthropology and Nostalgia

Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Theory and Methodology

Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.