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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...
After Writing Culture
Routledge 1997; US$ 47.95With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving followi ng the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s. more...
Constructing the Field
Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95Constructing the Field is a timely contribution to the debate about what fieldwork is and what it should be, it is an essential resource for both students and scholars of anthropology. more...
Anthropology, Development and Modernities
Routledge 1999; US$ 48.95This book provides a critical review of the varied interpretations of modernity and development supported by original case studies from the Netherlands, the former USSR, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Guatemala. more...
Working Images
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images , prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects... more...
Ethnographic Methods
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95Ethnography isn't a prescribed set of methods - it's a methodology that acknowledges the complexity of human experience and the need to research it by close and sustained observation of human behaviour. In this comprehensive, yet concise introduction, Karen O'Reilly introduces the reader to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that... more...
International Relations and the Problem of Difference
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 48.95International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are shaped by, the changing structures and processes of the international system. In this work, the authors re-imagine IR as a uniquely placed site for the study of differences... more...
History and Theory in Anthropology
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 35.00Alan Barnard's balanced and judicious overview of anthropological theory covering the historical contexts of the great debates, tracing the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It discusses evolutionism; diffusionism and culture area theories, functionalism and structural-functionalism; action-centred theories; processual and Marxist... more...
Human Paleobiology
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 58.00Human Paleobiology explores the adaptability and variation in past and present human populations under a range of changing environmental conditions. Using a historical approach emphasizing phenotypic features instead of complex taxonomy, it will be a stimulating and challenging read for all those interested in human paleobiology, evolutionary biology... more...
Pathways of Power
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prepared introductions to each section and individual... more...









