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Infancy, Culture and Diversityby Hiram Fitzgerald
RoutledgeFalmer 1999; US$ 145.00The idea for this volume was generated in a graduate seminar in developmental psychology that focused on the cultural context of infancy. The seminar was the direct result of several analyses of the published literature that indicated that scientific studies of children of color represented a disproportionately small portion of the publications from several of the most prominent journals in the field of human development. The relative lack of published studies stands in marked contrast to both immigration trends in the United States and the proportion of the United States population that is nonwhite. Since the 1980s nearly 85% of all immigrants to the United States are people of color, from various countries of Asia and the Pacific... more...
Gender Reversals and Gender Culturesby Sabrina Petra Ramet
Routledge 1996; US$ 41.95This collection of original essays explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. Topics cove- red include anthropology, history, literature. more...
Gendered Anthropologyby Teresa del Valle
Routledge 1993; US$ 46.95Offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex, gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology. more...
Locality and Belongingby Nadia Lovell
Routledge 1998; US$ 47.95Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the relationship between identity and territory with case studies from Indonesia, Zanzibar, Argentina, South Africa and the UK. more...
Dividends of Kinshipby Peter P. Schweitzer
Routledge 2000; US$ 43.95This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology with examples from areas such as Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon. more...
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoptionby Fiona Bowie
Routledge 2004; US$ 46.95This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy. more...
Family Timeby Nancy Folbre; Michael Bittman
Routledge 2004; US$ 65.00In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. They show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time. more...
Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinitiesby Susan Brownell; Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. more...
Natural Conflict Resolutionby Filippo Aureli; F. B. M. de Waal
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others--from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. more...
Aboriginal Womanby Mary Kaberry Phyllis
Routledge 2003; US$ 48.95First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is--a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals, and point of view. more...