Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific

   Foreign bodies in tinned tuna

   By Kate Barclay

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The Japanese, and other Asians, are increasingly taking over some of the roles previously played by Europeans in the Pacific islands, which is giving rise to interesting new economic relationships, and interesting new interactions between nationalities. This book considers the role of the Japanese...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The State in India after Liberalization

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. China and Globalization

   The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, 3rd Edition

   By Doug Guthrie

   Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
4. Liminal Landscapes

   Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between

   Edited by Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts

   Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

   Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes associated with these...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. U.S. Food Policy

   Anthropology and Advocacy in the Public Interest

   Edited by Lisa Markowitz, John Brett

   Inequity of control over food systems is a particularly insidious form of injustice. Collectively, the contributors to this volume posit that this inequity is rooted in power asymmetries in the U.S. food system and codified through U.S. food policies. This process puts the public at risk in the U.S...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

   Creativity Behind Barbed Wire

   Edited by Gilly Carr, Harold Mytum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

   This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Gated Communities in China

   Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life

   By Choon-Piew Pow

   Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

   Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Multiplex in India

   A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure

   By Adrian Athique, Douglas Hill

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times – both a symptom and a symbol of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a ‘globalised’ consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya

    Edited by Arjun Guneratne

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy...

    Published February 5th 2012 by Routledge