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1. Human Rights in Global Perspective

   Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements

   Edited by Jon P. Mitchell, Richard A. Wilson

   Series: ASA Monographs

   In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of...

   Published May 14th 2003 by Routledge
2. Participating in Development

   Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Sillitoe

   Series: ASA Monographs

   This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations....

   Published July 3rd 2002 by Routledge
3. Elite Cultures

   Anthropological Perspectives

   Edited by Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore

   Series: ASA Monographs

   Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings.Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas,...

   Published April 10th 2002 by Routledge
4. An Anthropology of Indirect Communication

   Edited by Joy Hendry, C.W. Watson

   Series: ASA Monographs

   Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called 'indirection'. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many...

   Published March 14th 2001 by Routledge
5. The Anthropology of Power

   Edited by Angela Cheater

   Series: ASA Monographs

   An edited collection which examines the theoretical issues surrounding power, and particularly empowerment, which uses ethnographic analysis as its basis. It takes material from the Middle East, Canada, Columbia, Australasia and various parts of Europe and Africa. It looks particularly at the...

   Published February 17th 1999 by Routledge
6. Ritual, Performance, Media

   Edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland

   Series: ASA Monographs

   Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brings a more anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed...

   Published November 5th 1997 by Routledge
7. After Writing Culture

   Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology

   Edited by Andrew Dawson, Jenny Hockey, Allison James

   Series: ASA Monographs

   This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.It includes discussion of issues such as:* the...

   Published April 9th 1997 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Environmentalism

   The View from Anthropology

   By Kay Milton

   Series: ASA Monographs

   Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies,...

   Published October 20th 1993 by Routledge
10. Socialism

    Ideals, Ideologies, and Local Practice

    Edited by C. M. Hann

    Series: ASA Monographs

    Socialism as a political system may be on the wane, yet no one can doubt that its cultural legacies will make themselves felt for years to come, and on a worldwide scale. The contributors to this volume adopt a variety of anthropological approaches to illuminate changes which have removed...

    Published December 16th 1992 by Routledge