Globalization From Below 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. Click here to read more.

"The word globalization summons up images of transnational corporations and internet-savvy human rights campaigners. This important book brings to our attention a wholly different and quite fascinating phenomenon - vast webs of traders, travelers, and marketers, crossing borders and transforming economies and societies from the bottom up." - Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
 

Participants from around the world share their views and opinions on subjects ranging from ideas for reconciliation, the question of what might constitute a universal "science," indigenous heritage, postcolonial museology, the boundaries of the term "indigeneity," different senses as ways of knowing, and the very issue of writing as a method of dissemination that divides and excludes readers from different backgrounds. This book represents a landmark step in the process of replacing bridges with more equal patterns of intercultural cooperation and communication.

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Exploring contemporary topics and perspectives including colonialism, economic development, globalisation, pop culture and more, this textbook covers all the basics you would expect as well as offering additional in-depth coverage of topics not normally addressed in other introductory texts.

The clean, student-friendly layout coupled with Eller's own highly readable written style, skillfully guides the reader through the application of anthropological concepts in the contemporary world. Clear and accessible, Cultural Anthropology is a resource that will be turned to again and again. Click here to read more.
 

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"Moberg does a masterful job of weaving together historical context, anthropological theory, and present-day issues and sensibilities. Rather than standing at a critical distance and taking potshots at our disciplinary ancestors, Moberg shows students clearly how anthropology's ideas and theoretical stances have arisen out of, and made sense within, their historical and geographical contexts. His style is engaging, readable, and often laugh-out-loud funny. How often can one say that about a theory textbook?" - Julie Adkins, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

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It is November already! Crazy. The year has really flown by and before long we will be into 2012. We are sure everyone is looking forward to a nice end-of-year rest and a chance to let your hair down. Before it is quite time to break out the New Year's champagne, however, we would like to bring you the brand new 2012 Reference Catalog, hot off the press and available for download today. Look out for all our social media links, divided by subject area, dotted throughout the Catalog. If you use Facebook or Twitter, there could be something for you!

2011 has been a busy year for Routledge Reference. The Routledge Revivals series, which reissues a wide range of out-of-print titles, has grown to include over 350 titles, all of which are available in hardback and as eBooks. And you can now purchase Revivals as subject-specific bundles within Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Economics and Politics. Is there a bundle that could benefit your library?

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It is almost November already! Crazy. The year has really flown by and before long we will be into 2012. We are sure everyone is looking forward to a nice end-of-year rest and a chance to let your hair down. Before it is quite time to break out the New Year's champagne, however, we would like to bring you the brand new 2012 Reference Catalogue, hot off the press and available for download today. Look out for all our social media links, divided by subject area, dotted throughout the Catalogue. If you use Facebook or Twitter, there could be something for you!

2011 has been a busy year for Routledge Reference. The Routledge Revivals series, which reissues a wide range of out-of-print titles, has grown to include over 350 titles, all of which are available in hardback and as eBooks. And you can now purchase Revivals as subject-specific bundles within Sociology, Philosophy, Literature, Economics and Politics. Is there a bundle that could benefit your library?

We are expecting the next few months to be equally busy. In December we publish our long-awaited Education set, which boasts contributions from some of the greatest educationalists, teaching professionals and policy makers of the twentieth century. You can get the full low down on the 244-volume Education collection by taking a peek at its new dedicated Online Catalogue.

And December will also see the publication of the last of our 2012 Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2012 and The USA and Canada 2012 will be published on the 8th and 15th December respectively. Again, to make life easier, we have put together a snazzy Online Catalogue for this collection. In fact, Online Catalogues have been one of our big projects this year, to avoid sending you too many printed pieces (and saving trees in the process!). In the relevant sections of the Reference Catalogue you will find screenshots explaining how you can access all our new Online Catalogues. Enjoy! 

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This book is perfect for Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Food, Sociology of Culture, and Food and Culture courses.

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An excellent collection that exemplifies the value of ecologically sensitive and informed anthropological research for shedding light on environmental problems and issues. The contributions demonstrate that environmental anthropology has become an essential component of environmental social science. - Riley E. Dunlap, Oklahoma State University, USA

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Reissued with a brand new preface, The Perception of the Environment is essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute have called it 'a formidable work in terms of its intellectual breadth...its sheer volume...and methodical consistency and clarity.'

Building on this classic work comes Being Alive. Ranging over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, the mingling of earth and sky in the weather-world, the experiences of light, sound and feeling, the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge, and the potential of drawing to unite observation and description, Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of the anthropological concern.

The audio file is available to stream or download from the ABC Radio National website on the following page:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2011/3207814.htm

The interview took place on the 9th of May.  Dr. O'Connor was interviewed by Paul Comrie-Thomson.

Tim Ingold, author of the best-selling book, Lines, is Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. His current research, on the comparative anthropology of the line, explores issues on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His newest book, Being Alive, will be available Spring 2011 from Routledge.

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Read more about Tim Ingold’s work in Routledge Journals

Ways of mind-walking: reading, writing, painting
Tim Ingold
Visual Studies, 1472-5878, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15 – 23

Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought
Tim Ingold
Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, 1469-588X, Volume 71, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9 – 20

The eye of the storm: visual perception and the weather
Tim Ingold
Visual Studies, 1472-5878, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97 – 104
 

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Here’s a peek at what you’ll find in the Encyclopedia.

FASHION (pg 283-284)

Fashion, once characterized as the “F word” of academia, became a topic of expanding interest in anthropology in the mid-1980s. . . Anthropologists have on the whole been less concerned with definitions of fashion than with understanding dress practices within a comparative cross-cultural and transnational framework. Some use the term fashion to refer to the distinctive system for the production, marketing, representation and wearing of clothes that emerged in the modern West, and has since extended its reach around the world with the global spread of capitalism. . . Read More

FEMINIST ANTHROPOLOGY (pg 284-287)

The recognition of sexual asymmetry raised the subject of male domination and female subordination and of how the position of women was to be explained. Was this something universal? Was it the result of women’s association with the domestic as opposed to the political sphere of life, their roles in reproduction and childcare, or was it connected to the symbolic construction of women and their association with the domain of the natural as opposed to the sphere of culture (Rosaldo and Lamphere 1974)? Different scholars took different positions on these questions. . . Read More

FINANCE (pg 295-298)

In this contemporary moment, it has become crucial for anthropology to engage with finance. In the past three decades, financial values and influence have helped to shape the social relations and shifts described by many social scientists as “neoliberalism,” which is characterized by the dominance of market social relations over other social relationships. For example, stock prices have largely displaced employment or productivity measures as the most important criteria in judging economic success and governing business practices in the United States and globally. . . Read More

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