Anthropology: Ethnography & Methodology

By Kate Wright

Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene offers a new perspective on international environmental scholarship, focusing on the emotional and affective connections between human and nonhuman lives to reveal fresh connections between global issues of climate change, species extinction and…

Paperback – 2018-06-08
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By Marc Szydlik

Sharing Lives explores the most important human relationships which last for the longest period of our lives: those between adult children and their parents. Offering a new reference point for studies on the sociology of family, the book focuses on the reasons and results of lifelong…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Jenny Thatcher, Nicola Ingram, Ciaran Burke, Jessie Abrahams

This book will give unique insight into how a new generation of Bourdieusian researchers apply Bourdieu to contemporary issues. It will provide a discussion of the working mechanisms of thinking through and/or with Bourdieu when analysing data. In each chapter, individual authors discuss and…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Sociological Futures

By Marky Jean-Pierre

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students’ academic achievement. Jean-Pierre provides empirical evidence that a relationship exists between language…

Paperback – 2018-02-12
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Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

By Alan F. Meades

This book offers insight into one of the most problematic and universal issues within multiplayer videogames: antisocial and oppositional play forms such as cheating, player harassment, the use of exploits, illicit game modifications, and system hacking, known collectively as counterplay. Using…

Paperback – 2018-02-12
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Routledge Advances in Game Studies

By Yarin Eski

Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global trade. The protection of this global supply chain from crime and terrorism is a fundamental objective of port security, and is a landscape beset by new challenges and changes post 9/11. Building on…

Paperback – 2018-01-15
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Routledge Studies in Crime and Society

Edited by Dreama G. Moon, Michelle A. Holling

Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new ways of making sense of race in the 21st century. Contributors to this book work at multiple intersections, theoretically and…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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By John Paley

Phenomenology originated as a novel way of doing philosophy early in the twentieth century. In the writings of Husserl and Heidegger, regarded as its founders, it was a non-empirical kind of philosophical enquiry. Although this tradition has continued in a variety of forms, ‘phenomenology’ is now…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Advances in Research Methods

By Laurent Vidal

In Anthropology in the Making, Laurent Vidal takes the reader into the world of research in the fields of health and development, providing a fresh and provocative perspective on the practice of anthropology. This volume investigates the “science of otherness” across four multi-disciplinary…

Paperback – 2017-12-18
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Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Edited by Robert E. Rinehart, elke emerald, Rangi Matamua

The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced,…

Paperback – 2017-12-18
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Routledge Studies in Anthropology

By Graham Fordham

Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit…

Paperback – 2017-12-18
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Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Edited by Dona Davis, Anita Maurstad

The Meaning of Horses: Biosocial Encounters examines some of the engagements or entanglements that link the lived experiences of human and non-human animals. The contributors discuss horse-human relationships in multiple contexts, times and places, highlighting variations in the meaning of horses…

Paperback – 2017-12-18
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