History & Theory of Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean

   Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders

   By Satadru Sen

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science

   By Amos Morris-Reich

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   The transformation of the human sciences into the social sciences in the third part of the 19th century was closely related to attempts to develop and implement methods for dealing with social tensions and the rationalization of society. This book studies the connections between academic...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Readings in Early Anthropology

   By James S. Slotkin

   This book considers the beginnings of anthropology as a cultural tradition, and examines how it was developed and transmitted. It begins in the twelfth century, when commercial capitalism and extensive acculturation spread a secular world view among intellectuals. It ends with the eighteenth...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Alan Barnard, Jonathan Spencer

   Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade....

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
6. Unveiling Man's Origins (Routledge Revivals)

   Ten Decades of Thought About Human Evolution

   By L. S. B. Leakey, Vanne Morris Goodall

   Originally published in 1969, the aim of this book is to tell the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. For anyone interested in man's past...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Being Alive

   Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

   By Tim Ingold

   Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social....

   Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge
8. Fifty Key Anthropologists

   Edited by Robert Gordon, Harriet Lyons, Andrew Lyons

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent...

   Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge
9. Malinowski amongst the Magi

   The Natives of Mailu [1915/1988]

   By Malinowski

   A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters....

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Father in Primitive Psychology and Myth in Primitive Psychology

    [1927]

    By Malinowski

    This volume investigates ideas, beliefs and sentiments in relation to social organization....

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge