History & Theory of Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Cultural Anthropology

   Global Forces, Local Lives, 2nd Edition

   By Jack David Eller

   Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives helps students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world. It offers an exceptionally clear and readable introduction to cultural anthropology, closely relating it to key topics such as colonialism and...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Archaeology in the Making

   Conversations through a Discipline

   Edited by William L Rathje, Michael Shanks, Christopher Witmore

   Archaeology in the Making is a collection of bold statements about archaeology, its history, how it works, and why it is more important than ever. This book comprises conversations about archaeology among some of its notable contemporary figures. They delve deeply into the questions that have come...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Engaging Anthropological Theory

   A Social and Political History

   By Mark Moberg

   This lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Mark Moberg examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological ideas regarding human diversity have always been...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
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. 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
7. Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory

   "I move therefore I am"

   By Brenda Farnell

   Series: Ontological Explorations

   This book presents a series of ontological investigations into an adequate theory of embodiment for the social sciences. Informed by a new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate a concept of dynamic embodiment, one that positions human body movement, and not just ‘the body’ at...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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 25th 2011 by Routledge