Social & Cultural Anthropology Books

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1. Reading the Ipod as an Anthropological Artifact: Click Wheels and Cargo Cults

   By Lane DeNicola

   "The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-80167-6 | Paperback (Routledge India)

2. The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society

   By Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gotschalk

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-87991-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World

   Edited by Carole Counihan, Psyche Williams Forson

   The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the century. Scholars from an array of disciplines have trained fresh theoretical and methodological approaches onto new dimensions of the human relationship to food. This anthology...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88855-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals): Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution

   By L. S. B. Leakey, Vanne Morris Goodall

   Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. For anyone interested in man's past...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-61128-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Chicago Korean-Americans: Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community

   By Jung-Sun Park

   Based on a Chicago Korean-American case, this dissertation examines the transformation of identity and politics in a transnational immigrant community in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-94881-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia

   Edited by Peter Flügel, Gustaaf Houtman

   Including analyses by top academics in the field, this book takes a unique look at questions of power and asceticism in the Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Ideas about power and purity in these three traditions are crucially related to ascetic practices....

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-42384-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Dealing with Disaster in Japan: Japanese and Global Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash

   By Christopher Hood

   Just as the sinking of the Titanic has a large place in public consciousness in Britain and North America, so the crash of Japanese Airlines flight 123 has become part of Japanese collective memory. This crash, the world’s worst, on 12 August 1985, involved the largest loss of life in any air crash...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-45662-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Real Tourism: Representation, Practice and the ‘Material’ in Contemporary Travel Culture

   Edited by Claudio Minca, TIM OAKES

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58224-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Diaspora and Citizenship

   Edited by Claire Sutherland, Elena Barabantseva

   This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59412-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Neo-Materialism: From Bio Power to Social Movements

    By Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-45053-9 | Hardback (Routledge)