Welcome to the Anthropology Catalogue.
This year sees the publication of some great new textbooks, research, and reference works which we have collected together for you on this first page.
Elsewhere in the catalogue you will find our new and key titles are arranged by series and theme, and these can be accessed using the links on the left hand side.
From introductory guides to textbooks, and reference handbooks to monographs, we are confident you that you will find the right book to suit your needs.
Remember, many of our titles:
• Are available as complimentary exam copies for instructors
• Can be recommended to your university librarians
• Feature our view inside function, where you can view sample pages
• Are accompanied with companion websites that contain extra content and resources
We hope you enjoy using this catalogue and if you have any queries or comments please get in touch. Contact details can be found below the contents list on the left.
Best wishes,
Routledge Anthropology
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Cultural Anthropology
Global Forces, Local Lives, 2nd Edition
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 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Engaging Anthropological Theory
A Social and Political History
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
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Globalization from Below
The World's Other Economy
This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world’s people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of ‘globalization from below’ are depicted and analyzed in...
Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour
Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect
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
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2nd Edition
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
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Being Alive
Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social....
Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge
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The Perception of the Environment
Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into...
Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Human Sexuality
Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives
Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives is a unique textbook that provides a complete analysis of this crucial aspect of life around the world. Utilizing viewpoints across cultural and national boundaries, and deftly weaving evolutionary and psychological perspectives,...
Published March 25th 2009 by Routledge
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Lines
A Brief History
This is the first book to explore the production and significance of lines. As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go: here, Tim Ingold lays the foundations for an anthropological archaeology of the line. He investigates: speech and song in the...
Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge
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Purity and Danger
An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Series: Routledge Classics
In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has...
Published September 11th 2002 by Routledge