Anthropology - Soc Sci

This book considers the beginnings of anthropology as a cultural tradition, and examines how it was developed and transmitted...

This text interrogates the variety of ways in which state policies and legal norms have been translated into the set of practical norms which make up real governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the concept of practical norms is an appropriate tool for an ethnographic investigation of publi..

Contributes various new analyses and approaches to the issue of community - such as destabilization in the global context, cultural absoluteness, separation of community and culture, compartmentalized communities...

Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through approaches which incorporate and critique memory-work...

First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Reconceptualizing The Peasantry..

This book explores how and why people are reconsidering the bicycle, no longer thinking of it simply as a toy or exercise machine, but as a potential solution to a number of contemporary problems. It focuses in particular on what reconsidering the bicycle might mean for everyday practices and politi..

This book explores how and why people are reconsidering the bicycle, no longer thinking of it simply as a toy or exercise machine, but as a potential solution to a number of contemporary problems. It focuses in particular on what reconsidering the bicycle might mean for everyday practices and politi..

Drawing on expertise from various fields, this ground-breaking volume of twelve chapters explores the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think. Along the way a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia contribute to key debates on what happens in making, ..

Drawing on expertise from various fields, this ground-breaking volume of twelve chapters explores the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think. Along the way a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia contribute to key debates on what happens in making, ..

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation. Yet it can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing. The imagination is part of all processes by which human beings process information about them..

In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation. Yet it can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing. The imagination is part of all processes by which human beings process information about them..