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Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this f...
Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing the central terms of the subj...
Globalization has dislocated community relations, and yet notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are. This book examines the chang...
An Anthropological Reading of the Art and Life of Stanley Spencer
In this ground-breaking book, a theory of ‘distortion’ - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion an...
An Alternative Anthropology of Power
Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the ...
A fascinating, highly readable anthropological account of the way the inhabitants of a small English village come to conceive of the world--how they i...
Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity
'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as...
An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the City
Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discussions about violence heard in bars, cars, courts-of-...
The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology
The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the ...
Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science
One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’ work offers a...
Ethical Engagement beyond Culture
Love ‘discovers the reality’ of individual human beings, wrote Iris Murdoch; love ‘deifies’ the person, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book p...
Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology
Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices ...
A European Legacy?
This collection explores the social legacy of European Enlightenment ideas of science and rationality. In their deployment science and rationality wer...
Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work
"Of Orderlies and Men is an account of a working hospital in Scotland as seen from the perspective of the hospital orderly or 'porter' who finds himse...
Towards a Literary and Liberal Anthropology
Drawing widely on ethnographic and theoretic materials, and bringing into debate a range of voices - Nietzsche, Wilde and Forster, Bateson and Gerald ...
This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the |conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relation...