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1. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption

   Edited by Fiona Bowie

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which...

   Published October 6th 2004 by Routledge
2. Realizing Community

   Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments

   Edited by Vered Amit

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses...

   Published February 6th 2002 by Routledge
3. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict

   Edited by Bettina Schmidt, Ingo Schroeder

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict seeks to redress this fragmentation and develop a method of cross-cultural analysis. The study of important conflicts, such...

   Published February 21st 2001 by Routledge
4. Natural Enemies

   People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective

   Edited by John Knight

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Wild animals raid crops, attack livestock, and sometimes threaten people. Conflicts with wildlife are widespread, assume a variety of forms, and elicit a range of human responses. Wildlife pests are frequently demonized and resisted by local communities while routinely 'controlled' by state...

   Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge
5. Audit Cultures

   Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy

   By Marilyn Strathern

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought?We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountability for our behaviour and actions. Audit cultures pervade in the workplace, our governmental and public institutions as well...

   Published July 12th 2000 by Routledge
6. Gender, Agency and Change

   Anthropological Perspectives

   By Victoria Goddard

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be...

   Published July 5th 2000 by Routledge
7. Dividends of Kinship

   Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness

   Edited by Peter P. Schweitzer

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's...

   Published March 1st 2000 by Routledge
8. Constructing the Field

   Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World

   Edited by Vered Amit

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the...

   Published September 22nd 1999 by Routledge
9. Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development

   Knowledge and sentiments in conflict

   Edited by Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren

   Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

   This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and...

   Published September 9th 1998 by Routledge
10. Recasting Ritual

    Performance, Media, Identity

    Edited by Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own...

    Published September 2nd 1998 by Routledge