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1. Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

   2nd Edition

   By Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing

   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
2. I Am Dynamite

   An Alternative Anthropology of Power

   By Nigel Rapport

   Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the...

   Published May 14th 2003 by Routledge
3. 2000 Years and Beyond

   Faith, Identity and the 'Commmon Era'

   Edited by David Archard, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel Rapport, David Archard, Paul Gifford, Trevor A. Hart, Nigel Rapport

   2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from...

   Published October 30th 2002 by Routledge
4. Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

   By Nigel Rapport, Joanna Overing

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are: Cybernetics Ecriture Feminine Gossip Human Rights Moralities Stereotypes Thick Description...

   Published June 28th 2000 by Routledge
5. Transcendent Individual

   Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology

   By Nigel Rapport

   Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively 'write', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an...

   Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge
6. Questions of Consciousness

   Edited by Anthony P. Cohen, Nigel Rapport

   Series: ASA Monographs

   This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process....

   Published November 22nd 1995 by Routledge