Political & Economic Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Refugees and Cultural Transfer to Britain

   Edited by Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi

   This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their way to Britain, beginning with exiles from the failed European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. The World of Wal-Mart

   Discounting the American Dream

   By Nick Copeland, Christine Labuski

   Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

   This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart’s...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

   Edited by Linden Lewis

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Tibetan Studies in Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Chih-yu Shih, Yu-Wen Chen

   Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic,...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Pukhtun Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

   Traditional Structure and Economic Development in a Tribal Society

   By Akbar Ahmed

   First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with...

   Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Decoding Subaltern Politics

   Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics

   By James C. Scott

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   James C. Scott has researched and written on subaltern groups, and, in particular, peasants, rebellion, resistance, and agriculture, for over 35 years. Yet much of Scott’s most interesting work on the peasantry and the state, both conceptually and empirically, has never been published in book form....

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Cultural Expertise and Litigation

   Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives

   Edited by Livia Holden

   Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture," "custom" and "law"? How are these concepts...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China

   Red Fire

   By Gene Cooper

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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