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Comparative Youth Culture
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 63.95Mike Brake suggests that subcultures develop in response to social problems which a group experiences collectively, and shows how individuals draw on collective identities to define themselves. more...
Evolution, Order and Complexity
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 210.00Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be applied and offer insight into the social realm. This... more...
Exploring Borders
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of... more...
Connections
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural. Recent popular interest in the brain is evident, and now social anthropologists are... more...
The End of Tradition?
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.00Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and the current debates about the 'end of tradition'. Thereafter... more...
Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 26.00Class has become a feature of life in Papua New Guinea, evident in both 'traditional' and 'modern' settings. This book examines the emergence of class differences and its social and cultural ramifications in Wewak, capital of the East Sepik Province, and movingly conveys the injuries of class inequalities. more...
The Global Nomad
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 49.95Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. more...
Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 37.00Fascinating insight into cultural change and transformation in a rural community in Southern Ethiopia. Two types of ritual are performed by the same people: one has remained stable, while the other has been transformed. Dena Freeman focusses on new ethnographical and historical data to analyse how this can occur. more...
Mapping the Futures
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95There are now new experiences of space and time; new tensions between globalism and regionalism, socialism and consumerism, reality and spectacle; new instabilities of value, meaning and identity - a dialectic between past and future. How are we to understand these? Mapping the Futures is the first of a series which brings together cultural theorists... more...
Re-imagining Cultural Studies
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 60.00This book is a much-needed reappraisal of the Williams approach, correcting misinterpretations and demonstrating its singular relevance to the problems and potentials facing cultural studies today. What emerges is a logically consistent and penetrating way of `doing cultural studies' that successfully challenges many of the dominant approaches in the... more...









