Anthropology: Ethnography & Methodology

Edited by Moises Lino e Silva, Huon Wardle

‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practised in everyday life, including the emergent relationships between…

Hardback – 2016-12-02
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Anthropology

By Mariann Vaczi

Spanish soccer is on top of the world, at international and club level, with the best teams and a seemingly endless supply of exciting and stylish players. While the Spanish economy struggles, its soccer flourishes, deeply embedded throughout Spanish social and cultural life. But the relationship…

Paperback – 2016-11-15
Routledge
Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

By Anne Stefanie Aronsson

Since Japan’s economic recession began in the 1990s, the female workforce has experienced revolutionary changes as greater numbers of women have sought to establish careers. Employment trends indicate that increasingly white-collar professional women are succeeding in breaking through the "glass…

Paperback – 2016-11-11
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

By Terence Heng

The use of images, particularly photography, has been steadily gaining popularity in academia, but there has not yet been a book that deals with the act and process of photo-taking in the field. Drawing upon 21 years of photographic experience and sociological research, Terence Heng’s immersive and…

Paperback – 2016-11-09
Routledge

Edited by Susan Gair, Ariella van Luyn

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives? Sharing Qualitative Research presents innovative methods for harnessing creative storytelling methodologies and technologies that help…

Hardback – 2016-11-02
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Research Methods

By Zlatan Krajina

This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor advertisers target audiences which…

Paperback – 2016-10-27
Routledge
Comedia

Edited by Penelope Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen, Atsuro Morita

Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene,…

Hardback – 2016-10-19
Routledge
CRESC

Edited by Maryann McCabe

In a global and rapidly changing commercial environment, businesses increasingly use collaborative ethnographic research to understand what motivates their employees and what their customers value. In this volume, anthropologists, marketing professionals, computer scientists and others examine…

Paperback – 2016-10-18
Routledge

By Simon J. Bronner

Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear…

Paperback – 2016-09-22
Routledge
The Basics

Edited by Elizabeth Righter

Excavations at the Tutu site represent a dramatic chapter in the annals of Caribbean archaeological excavation. The site was discovered in 1990 during the initial site clearing for a shopping mall in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The site was excavated with the assistance of a team of…

Paperback – 2016-08-04
Routledge

Edited by Jennifer Robertson

Four anthropologists, Elise Edwards, Ann Elise Lewallen, Bridget Love and Tomomi Yamaguchi, draw on their fieldwork experiences in Japan to demonstrate collectively the inadequacy of both the Code of Ethics developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the dictates of…

Paperback – 2016-07-08
Routledge

By Jan-Oddvar Sornes, Larry Browning, Jan Terje Henriksen

The discovery, just forty years ago, of vast oil and gas reserves in the Southwestern part of Norway, and more recently in the Arctic High North region, created an economic titan and posed a vast array of challenges for both the Norwegian government and the residents of this area. How to extract…

Paperback – 2016-07-08
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media