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Browse Anthropology books by subject from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

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Recently Published Books

1. Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care

   Edited by Margaret Kernan, Elly Singer

   Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together fresh perspectives and research about young children’s relationships. It examines children’s rights and well-being against a backdrop of increased social movement and migration, changing family structures and work practices,...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
2. Shingu

   A Study of a Japanese Fishing Community

   By Arne Kalland

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   From being an important centre which attracted a large number of merchants during the feudal period, Shingu, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City. Fishing is a slowly-dying occupation and this volume analyses how the fishermen adjust to changing circumstances. Although...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
3. Unwrapping Japan

   Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective

   Edited by Eyal Ben-Ari, Brian Moeran, Jim Valentine

   Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan. Yet it seems that the more that is written about Japan and Japanism – its culture, society, people – the more mysterious it becomes. As well as exploring issues relating to advertising, tourism, women,...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
4. Japanese Whaling?

   End of an Era

   By Arne Kalland, Brian Moeran

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan. When originally published this was the first comprehensive account in English of the history of Japanese whaling, showing how it has given rise to a particular culture. The volume discusses what happens when that culture...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
5. Routledge Library Editions: Japan Mini-Set E: Sociology & Anthropology

   By Various

   Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system....

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
6. Culture, Institutions, and Development

   New Insights Into an Old Debate

   Edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Robert Peccoud

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
7. Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

   The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

   By Hsiao-yen Peng

   Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia

   This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
8. Land Of The Hittites

   By Garstang

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
9. Early Europe: The Dawning

   By Jones

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
10. Kettner'S Book Of The Table

    By Kettner

    Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge