Political & Economic Anthropology Books

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1. Varieties of Secularism in Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual

   Edited by Nils Ole Bubandt, Martijn Van Beek

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-61672-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Environmental Anthropology: Cross Disciplinary Investigations

   Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-78156-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. The Modern Anthropology of India: A Reader

   Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58724-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan

   By Chad Haines

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58778-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Small Town China: Rural Labour and Social Inclusion

   By Beatriz Carrillo Garcia

   This book, as a case study of small town China using Hongton County, Shanxi Province as its focus, suggests that outside the larger cities there may be alternative accounts of urban social change and the integration of rural migrant workers and that China's transformation may not necessarily result...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60023-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Transnationalism, Migration and Marriage

   Edited by Katherine Charsley

   Transnational migration based on marriage has long contributed substantially to international mobility and has represented a major source of transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labour migration, marriage has until recent years been a...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-58653-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Cultural Expertise and Litigation: Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives

   Edited by Livia Holden

   Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the issues surrounding the legal role of social scientists that provide evidence in cases related to minority groups and migration. In various circumstances, non-western laws and practices are regularly interpreted in western courts. Marriages, divorces,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60156-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Lycra: How A Fiber Shaped America

   By KAORI O'CONNOR

   Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-80437-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Phenomenon of Money (Routledge Revivals)

   By Thomas Crump

   First published in 1981, this book concerns itself with the different ways in which money is used, the relationships which then arise, and the institutions concerned in maintaining its various functions. Thomas Crump examines the emergence of institutions with familiar and distinctive monetary...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-61187-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Evans-Pritchard

    By Mary Douglas

    First published in 1980, this book provides an overview of E. E. Evans-Pritchard's approach to anthropology. His seminal works on the Azande and the Nuer had an immense impact on the field in Britain. He wrote these works in his thirties and forties, after which time he became chair of...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-60659-2 | Paperback (Routledge)