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1. Islam, Development, and Urban Women’s Reproductive Practices

   By Cortney Hughes Rinker

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Adolescent Identity

   Evolutionary, Cultural and Developmental Perspectives

   Edited by Bonnie L. Hewlett

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Social Life of Climate Change Models

   Anticipating Nature

   Edited by Kirsten Hastrup, Martin Skrydstrup

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Confronting Capital

   Critique and Engagement in Anthropology

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles of ordinary people in the face of capitalist change. In the current economic moment...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

   Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect

   Edited by Joy Hendry, Laara Fitznor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Decolonising Indigenous Rights

   Edited by Adolfo de Oliveira

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Covering a wide range of issues relating to the topic, this book examines the experiences and perceptions of indigenous peoples in the context of the national states and political systems that have been externally imposed and implemented upon them. Fascinating and incisive, the text discusses a...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Traveling Spirits

   Migrants, Markets and Mobilities

   Edited by Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Kristine Krause

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Question of the Gift

   Essays Across Disciplines

   Edited by Mark Osteen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory...

   Published August 7th 2002 by Routledge
9. Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe

   The New Strangers

   By Elizabeth Murphy-Lejeune

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   Bringing together case studies and theory, this book is the first in-depth qualitative study of student migration within Europe. Drawing on the theory of 'the stranger' as a sociological type, the author suggests that the travelling European students can be seen as a new migratory elite. The book...

   Published October 31st 2001 by Routledge