Anthropology

The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society.

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze.

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker.

The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations.

In a series of epic self-narratives ranging from traditional cultural embodiments to picaresque adventures, Christian epiphanies and a host of interactive strategies and techniques for living, Kewa Highlanders (PNG) attempt to shape and control their selves and their relentlessly changing world.

Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier s work.

Anthropology is particularly well suited to explore the contemporary predicament in the coming of age of young men.

During the 1970s a wave of counter-culture people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia.

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments.

In northwest Namibia, people s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state.

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life.

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project.

For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily.

Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference.

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place.

One of the most influential anthropological works of the last two decades, Alfred Gell s Art and Agency is a provocative and ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and the social.

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges.

The growing debate over British national identity, and the place of "e;Englishness"e; within it, raises crucial questions about multiculturalism, postimperial culture and identity, and the past and future histories of globalization.

Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language.

The word blood awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures.

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports.

In order to move global society towards a sustainable ecotopia, solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor.

In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life.

Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic oil.

The managerial revolution, or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions.

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago.

Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, rotten apples.

At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "e;refugee cycle"e; - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes.

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city.

Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory.

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study.

Shared sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact or fail to interact is the focus of this volume.

Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific.

Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "e;meaningful events.

Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors.

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use.

Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning.

Since the publication of Philippe Aries s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there has been great interest among historians in the history of the family and the household.

The fact is that war comes in many guises and its effects continue to be felt long after peace is proclaimed.

Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home.

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another s lives and ponder one another s states in relation to their foodways.

The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel.

Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world.

Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged western understandings of man s place in the world.

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields.

In recent years the concept and study of civil society has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists.

In its assessment of the current "e;state of play"e; of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "e;the field"e; pose to contemporary ethnographic methods.

The war in the Middle East is marked by a lack of cultural knowledge on the part of the western forces, and this book deals with another, widely ignored element of Islam the role of dreams in everyday life.