Social & Cultural Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Risk

   Second Edition

   By Deborah Lupton

   Series: Key Ideas

   Risk (second edition) is a fully revised and expanded update of a highly-cited, influential and well-known book. It reviews the three major approaches to risk in social and cultural theory, devoting a chapter to each one. These approaches were first identified and described by Deborah Lupton in the...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Making

   Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture

   By Tim Ingold

   Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Making Culture, Changing Society

   By Tony Bennett

   Series: CRESC

   Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Parenting in Global Perspective

   Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

   Edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane M. Hoffman, Linda L. Layne

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of ‘parenting’. Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of ‘parenting’ as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Dharavi

   From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

   By Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky

   Series: Cities and the Urban Imperative

   Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as ‘Little India’, it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge India
6. Religion in Contemporary China

   Revitalization and Innovation

   Edited by Adam Yuet Chau

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. The Integral Nature of Things

   Critical Reflections on the Present

   By Lata Mani

   The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual self from the multiple dimensions with which they are interconnected. The Integral Nature of Things...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge India
9. Reconsidering the Bicycle

   An Anthropological Perspective on a New (Old) Thing

   By Luis Vivanco

   Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

   In cities throughout the world, bicycles have gained a high profile in recent years, with politicians and activists promoting initiatives like bike lanes, bikeways, bike share programs, and other social programs to get more people on bicycles. Bicycles in the city are, some would say, the wave of...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
10. Bollywood

    A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, 2nd Edition

    By Tejaswini Ganti

    Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks

    'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and an emphasis on stars and spectacle, Bollywood films have met with box-office success and...

    Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge