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  • Ethnicityby Steve Fenton

    Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95

    In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world, Fenton explores and clarifies the core meanings and the shifting ground of this contested... more...

  • Elite Culturesby Cris Shore; Stephen Nugent

    Routledge 2002; US$ 44.95

    What makes an elite? This authoritative new volume examines elite groups in power across Europe, North America, Mexico, Peru, Indonesia and Africa to answer this question fully at a time of their increasing dominance. more...

  • Anthropology of Violence and Conflictby Bettina Schmidt; Ingo Schroeder

    Routledge 2001; US$ 43.95

    The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis. more...

  • The Samburuby Paul Spencer

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 44.95

    Based on two years' study in northern Kenya, this book explores a culture in which power rests with older men. more...

  • Social Psychology of Ethnic Identityby Maykel Verkuyten

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 49.95

    In contrast to other disciplines, social psychology has been slow in responding to the questions posed by the issue of ethnicity. The Social Psychology of Ethnic Identity demonstrates the important contribution that psychology can make. The central aim of this book is to show, on the one hand, that social psychology can be used to develop a better... more...

  • Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruismby Frank Salter

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 55.95

    Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism applies the controversial theory of 'Ethnic Nepotism', first formulated by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Pierre van den Berghe, to the modern welfare state (both are authors in this volume). This theory states that ethnic groups resemble large families whose members are prone to cooperate due to 'kin altruism'. Recent... more...

  • Contesting Moralitiesby Nannekke Redclift

    Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 67.95

    Questions of public and private morality, values and choices have become important areas of collective discussion.  A key feature of this book is that it takes an ethnographic rather than a philosophical or speculative approach to moral debates. This study examines the contemporary explosion of ethical discourse in the public domain and the growing... more...

  • State and Societyby J. Gledhill; M. T. Larsen; B. Bender

    Routledge 1998; US$ 57.95

    Bringing archaeological research into contact with the work of ethno-historians and anthropologists, these papers analyze the dynamics of political centralization, and resistance to it, in a wide range of historical and geographical contexts. more...

  • Feminist Reviewby The Feminist Review Collective

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 18.95

    Focuses on feminist analyses of race and ethnicity - currently one of the most immediate issues facing feminist thinking. The volume ranges from a study of the social geographes of whiteness in the USA to a variety of perspectives on the break-up in Yugoslavia. more...

  • Race and Ethnicityby Stephen Spencer

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 55.95

    Broad-ranging and comprehensive, this incisive new textbook examines the shifting meanings of 'race' and ethnicity and collates the essential concepts in one indispensable companion volume. From Marxist views to post-colonialism, this book investigates the attendant debates, issues and analyses within the context of global change. Using international... more...