Social & Cultural Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Local Foods Meet Global Foodways

   Tasting History

   Edited by Benjamin Lawrance, Carolyn de la Peña

   This book explores the intersection of food and foodways from global and local perspectives. The collection contributes to interdisciplinary debates about the role and movement of commodities in the historical and contemporary world. The expert contributions collectively address a fundamental...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Religious Commodifications in Asia

   Marketing Gods

   Edited by Pattana Kitiarsa

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia. Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia’s...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property

   Edited by R Layton, P Stone, J Thomas

   Series: One World Archaeology

   In 1991 the mosque at Ayodhya in India was demolished by Hindu fundamentalists who claim that it stood on the birthplace of a legendary Hindu hero. During recent conflicts in former Yugoslavia, ethnic groups destroyed mosques and churches to eliminate evidence of long-term settlement by other...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Agency without Actors?

   New Approaches to Collective Action

   Edited by Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Birgit Peuker, Michael Schillmeier

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Amazonian Geographies

   Emerging Identities and Landscapes

   Edited by Jacqueline Vadjunec, Marianne Schmink

   Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming...

   Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Pictorial Turn

   Edited by Neal Curtis

   In 1992 W. J. T. Mitchell argued for a "pictorial turn" in the humanities, registering a renewed interest in and prevalence of pictures and images in what had been understood as an age of simulation, or an increasingly extensive and diverse visual culture. However, in what is often characterized as...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. Development and Local Knowledge

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Stillitoe

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people.Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. A Crisis of Waste?

    Understanding the Rubbish Society

    By Martin O'Brien

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

    Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge