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Popularizing Anthropology
Routledge 1996; US$ 43.95Popularizing Anthropology unearths a submerged tradition within anthropology and reveals that anthropologists have always looked beyond academic recognition. more...
Conceptualizing Society
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 168.00The first collection of papers taken from the first conference of the EASA, discussing the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today. more...
Social Anthropology
Taylor and Francis 1989; US$ 46.95An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World. The author raises questions of vital importance to... more...
Anthropological Critique of Development
Routledge 1993; US$ 49.95Challenges the utopian view of Western knowledge as uniquely successful in its application to economic and social development. The contributors offer an enthographic critique using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. more...
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 27.95Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are: Cybernetics Ecriture Feminine Gossip Human Rights Moralities Stereotypes Thick Description Violence. Each entry is accompanied... more...
Anthropology and Autobiography
Routledge 1992; US$ 39.95Provides insights into the validity of fieldwork autobiography and the textual critique of anthropologists, presenting new scope for the genre of autobiography and contributing to debates about reflexivity and political responsibility. more...
Contemporary Futures
Routledge 1992; US$ 46.95Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures. more...
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Routledge 1994; US$ 46.95Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve. more...
Future of Anthropological Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95The Future of Anthropological Knowledge the chapters explore the question of the nature of social knowledge from a variety of perspectives and locations such as China, Africa, the USA and elsewhere. By examining the changing nature of anthropological knowledge and of the production of that knowledge, this book challenges the notion that only western... more...
Counterworks
Routledge 1995; US$ 46.95Counterworks argues that the apparent oppostion between strong westernizing forces and a weak concept of culture needs rethinking in a world where a sense of culture has become a wide spread property of people's social knowledge. more...









