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Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic...
To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism
Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been...
To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge
This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this...
To Be Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state’s work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality of...
To Be Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary...
To Be Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on...
To Be Published August 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
As our world becomes increasingly permeable, and as human populations are rapidly converging and transitioning within a global interconnectedness, it is vital that we look to, and learn from, those most adept at the adaptation, creation, and contesting of culture: adolescents. This text is designed...
To Be Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
This lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Anthropological ideas about human diversity have always been rooted in the socio-political conditions in which they arose, and exploring them in context helps students understand how and why they evolved, and how theory...
To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into...
To Be Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Asia's Transformations
During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving...
To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
