Anthropology: Products

By Giorgia Dona

2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. This volume, the product of over twenty years of engagement with Rwanda and its diaspora, offers a timely reminder of the necessity of rethinking the genocide’s social history. Examining a range of marginal stories and using Rwanda as a case…

Hardback – 2019-05-09 
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

By May Joseph

The ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores. Migrations by sea have transformed modern conceptions of mobility and belonging, disrupting notions of how to write about movement, memory, displaced histories. Sea Log is a memory theatre of repressive hauntings based on urban…

Hardback – 2019-05-09 
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Changing Mobilities

By Paloma Gay y Blasco, Huon Wardle

How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an anthropological imagination of their own.…

Paperback – 2019-05-08 
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Edited by Fabian Cannizzo, Nick Osbaldiston

Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies. Global networks of researchers, finance, students, and policy makers invoke collaborative sociological perspectives. What it means to be an academic and to work in a technologically…

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Routledge Advances in Sociology

By Verena Namberger

The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates, and research subjects; and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding…

Hardback – 2019-05-08 
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Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

Edited by David Simon

Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the…

Paperback – 2019-05-07 
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Routledge Key Guides

Edited by Suzanne Naafs, Tracey Skelton

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions. It demonstrates how recent changes in training, education and employment have sparked…

Hardback – 2019-05-07 
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Edited by Lipokmar Dzüvichü, Manjeet Baruah

Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects have historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instance, how are objects…

Paperback – 2019-05-06 
Routledge India

Edited by Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason

This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range…

Hardback – 2019-05-01 
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Routledge Worlds

By Massimo Leone

Focussing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives. Seeking to explain the semiotic causes of feelings of meaningless,…

Paperback – 2019-05-01 
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Edited by Lipi Ghosh

Southern Silk Route is the historic route, which runs from China to Myanmar and ends up in Assam. The route has historical importance as it served as a major artery of ancient trade articles. The Southern Silk Route: Historical Links and Contemporary Convergences attempts to sketch out the…

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Edited by Heidi Maibom

Empathy plays a central role in the history and contemporary study of ethics, interpersonal understanding, and the emotions, yet until now has been relatively underexplored. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Empathy is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in…

Paperback – 2019-05-01 
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