Social & Cultural Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. The Contemporary US Peace Movement

   By Laura Toussaint

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   As peace activists have faced increased government repression and accusations of being unpatriotic since 9/11, Toussaint examines how current attempts to control dissent impact the peace movement. This study offers an analysis of self-identified peace activists in terms of their demographic...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Racial Discrimination

   Institutional Patterns and Politics

   By Masoud Kamali

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability. It is a result of the collision and incompatibility between declarations of universal values (such as human rights and democracy) and institutionalized actions which exclude and discriminate against...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

   By Raymond Pierotti

   Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics

   Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Handbook of Cultural Sociology

   Edited by John R. Hall, Laura Grindstaff, Ming-cheng Lo

   The Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary scholarship in sociology and related disciplines focused on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With sixty-five essays written by scholars from around the world, the book...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

   Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives

   Edited by Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde

   Series: CRESC

   Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Digital Drama

   Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

   By Paula Uimonen

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. The Cultural Moment in Tourism

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

    Series: Advances in Tourism

    This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge