Books for Social and Cultural Anthropology Courses

The Object Reader

Edited by Fiona Candlin, Raiford Guins

Series: In Sight: Visual Culture

This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by reshaping the ways in which the object can be taught and studied, from a wide variety of disciplines and fields. The Object Reader elucidates objects in many of their diverse roles, dynamics and capacities...

Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge

Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Edited by Vered Amit

Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, The Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology contains almost six hundred individually-signed entries from a global team of contributors and offers an important, and fascinating overview of the...

Published August 25th 2008 by Routledge

The Diaspora Strikes Back

Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning

By Juan Flores

Series: Cultural Spaces

In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...

Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

2nd Edition

By Nigel Rapport

Series: Routledge Key Guides

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central disciplines students will encounter in this field. Fully updated, the second edition includes new entries on: aesthetics egalitarianism the everyday landscape power the state. With full...

Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge

Lines

A Brief History

By Tim Ingold

This is the first book to explore the production and significance of lines. As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go: here, Tim Ingold lays the foundations for an anthropological archaeology of the line. He investigates: speech and song in the...

Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge

Highland Homecomings

Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora

By Paul Basu

The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology,...

Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge

Anthropology: The Basics

By Peter Metcalf

Series: The Basics

The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do...

Published September 7th 2005 by Routledge

Cultural Intimacy

Social Poetics in the Nation-State, 2nd Edition

By Michael Herzfeld

In this new updated edition, Herzfeld includes more discussion about what cultural intimacy has come to mean for other authors and researchers, and how it can contribute to present studies of global processes and the forces that resist them....

Published December 26th 2004 by Routledge

Natural Symbols

Explorations in Cosmology, 3rd Edition

By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas

Series: Routledge Classics

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw...

Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge