Anthropology - Soc Sci

Reflexive Ethnography provides a practical and comprehensive guide to ethnographic research methods which fully engages with the significant issues of modernism/postmodernism, subjectivity/objectivity and self/other...

An interdisciplinary perspective based primarily on European ethnology and political economy, this book explores various aspects of development in rural as well as urban locations. Incorporating the results of extensive fieldwork, it addresses key issues in the contemporary debate on culture and ec..

Representing a departure from traditional studies of social organisation, the book asserts that a kinship system is best understood as a system of concepts rather than as a set of empirical relationships...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This text is a much-needed and long overdue addition to Caribbean studies and the exploration of ideas, beliefs, and religious practices of Caribbean folk in diaspora and at home...

Examines religious practices from an anthropological perspectiveReligions in Practice, 6/e, offers an issues-oriented perspective on everyday religious behaviors – prayer, sacrifice, initiation, healing, etc. – by focusing on such topics as transnationalism, gender, and religious laws. The text exam..

Scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional approaches and criteria...

Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this is an intriguing book which takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death today...

The central theme of this volume is the notion of "irrational reproduction": the ways in which women’s and couples’ reproductive choices and practices are deemed "irrational" or "irresponsible" because they result in the "wrong number" of children. Inspired by Foucault’s theories on biopolitics and ..

Resistance to Modernization in Africa..

Resistance to Modernization in Africa..

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...