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Individuality is often interpreted as a force for the separation and autonomy of the individual. This book takes a different approach: it explores the expression of individuality …
This innovative book explores the way Western anthropologists use studies of ethnicity to 'interpret' local cultures. Mary Rack raises critical issues about ethnic classifications …
Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India. Drawing on five years of research in and around …
How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the …
Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are …
This original ethnographic study looks at how children are ‘civilised’ within child institutions, such as schools, day care centres and families, under the auspices of the welfare …
Base Encounters explores the social friction that US bases have caused in South Korea, where the entertainment districts next to American military installations have come under …
What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support …
How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the …
This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of …