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201. Making Places in the Prehistoric World

     Themes in Settlement Archaeology

     By Joanna Bruck, Melissa Goodman

     This groundbreaking volume addresses issues central to the study of prehistoric settlement including group memory, the transmission of ideology and the impact of mobility and seasonality on the construction of social identity. Building on these themes, the contributors point to new ways of...

     Published April 28th 1999 by Routledge
202. Key Debates in Anthropology

     Edited by Tim Ingold

     Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four principal speakers: one to propose the motion,...

     Published October 23rd 1996 by Routledge
203. Popularizing Anthropology

     Edited by Jeremy McClancy, Christian McDonaugh

     Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline. In the 1980s postmodernist anthropologists began to explore the literary and reflective aspects of their work. Popularizing Anthropology advances that trend by looking at a key but previously marginalized...

     Published September 25th 1996 by Routledge
204. The World of Goods

     2nd Edition

     By Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas, Baron Isherwood

     This revised edition with new Introduction from a leading anthropologist and an economist is unique in being about consumption but not a sermon for consumers, nor a moan against consumerism. The World of Goods bridges the gap between what anthropologists know about why objects are desired and what...

     Published September 4th 1996 by Routledge
205. Transnational Connections

     Culture, People, Places

     By Ulf Hannerz

     Series: Comedia

     Published July 3rd 1996 by Routledge
206. Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity

     2nd Edition

     Edited by S. J. Shennan

     Series: One World Archaeology

     Examines the critical implications of cultural identity from a variety of perspectives. Questions the nature and limits of archaeological knowledge of the past and the relationship of material culture to cultural identity....

     Published August 31st 1994 by Routledge
207. Nations Unbound

     Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

     Edited by Linda, Glick Schiller Basch

     Nations Unbound is a pioneering study of an increasing trend in migration-transnationalism. Immigrants are no longer rooted in one location. By building transnational social networks, economic alliances and political ideologies, they are able to cross the geographic and cultural boundaries of both...

     Published November 2nd 1993 by Routledge
208. Essays on the History of British Anthropology

     By Urry, J

     Series: Studies in Anthropology and History

     Published May 4th 1993 by Routledge
209. Time and the Work of Anthropology

     Critical Essays 1971-1981

     By Johanne Fabian

     Series: Studies in Anthropology and History

     The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless...

     Published January 29th 1992 by Routledge
210. The Origins of Human Behaviour

     Edited by Robert Foley

     Series: One World Archaeology

     This volume explores the diverse ways in which the evolution of human behaviour can be investigated, and confronts the most challenging aspects of the subject....

     Published December 19th 1990 by Routledge