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1. Feeding Desire

   Fatness, Beauty and Sexuality Among a Saharan People

   By Rebecca Popenoe

   While the Western world adheres to a beauty ideal that says women can never be too thin, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of extreme fatness. Voluptuous immobility is thought to beautify girls' bodies, hasten the onset of puberty, heighten...

   Published October 28th 2003 by Routledge
2. Consuming Habits

   Drugs in History and Anthropology, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Jordan Goodman, Andrew Sherratt, Paul E. Lovejoy

   Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion...

   Published April 9th 2007 by Routledge
3. Reflexive Ethnography

   A Guide to Researching Selves and Others, 2nd Edition

   By Charlotte Aull Davies, Charlotte Aull Davies

   Series: The ASA Research Methods

   Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of...

   Published October 17th 2007 by Routledge
4. How to Read Ethnography

   By Huon Wardle, Paloma Gay y Blasco

   How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to...

   Published October 4th 2006 by Routledge
5. Thinking Through Things

   Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically

   Edited by Amiria Henare, Martin Holbraad, Sari Wastell

   Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in anthropology and its related disciplines, shifting its philosophical foundations. The first text to offer a direct and provocative challenge...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge