Ethnology Books

New and Published Books

1. Marriage in Contemporary Japan

   By Yoko Tokuhiro

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia

   By Suvi Salmenniemi

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society. It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life, considering how it has developed since the Soviet period, and analyzing the goals and identities of...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
3. When Greeks think about Turks

   The View from Anthropology

   Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos

   Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The...

   Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
4. Peopling the Russian Periphery

   Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History

   Edited by Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia....

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
5. A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific

   Foreign bodies in tinned tuna

   By Kate Barclay

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The Japanese, and other Asians, are increasingly taking over some of the roles previously played by Europeans in the Pacific islands, which is giving rise to interesting new economic relationships, and interesting new interactions between nationalities. This book considers the role of the Japanese...

   Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge
6. Shamanism:Critical Concepts V1

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
7. Shamanism:Critical Concepts V2

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
8. Shamanism:Critical Concepts V3

   Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
9. 'Mixed Race' Studies

   A Reader

   Edited by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe

   Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this...

   Published June 16th 2004 by Routledge
10. Shamanism

    Critical Concepts in Sociology

    Edited by Andrei A. Znamenski

    Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    Mircea Eliade descibed shamanism as the primal religion of humanity, the 'archaic technique of ecstasy'. The books of best-selling author Carlos Castaneda made it part of popular culture. Since the 1960s shamanism has continued to attract the attention of scholars, artists, writers and the general...

    Published March 10th 2004 by Routledge