Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Rethinking Relation-Substance Dualism: Submutances and the Body
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By Aurélie Névot
May 27, 2025
This book analyses anthropological debates on “relationism” (referring to methodological and theoretical issues) and sets out to reconsider these discussions with regards to the notion of “substance” (generally associated with the body). Reflecting on the philosophical origins and implications of ...
Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method
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By Nigel Rapport, Huon Wardle
April 14, 2025
In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now. This book offers a new survey and theorisation of cosmopolitan research, a burgeoning topic responding to ...
One World Anthropology and Beyond: A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold
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By Martin Porr, Niels Weidtmann
November 28, 2024
This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships between human beings, organisms, and their environment, Ingold has become one of the most influential, innovative, and prolific writers in anthropology in...
Secular Narrations and Transdisciplinary Knowledge
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By Abdelmajid Hannoum
November 28, 2024
This book considers secularism and its narrative expressions. It shows how secularism is articulated and transmitted ubiquitously within state institutions and outside of them. Abdelmajid Hannoum does this by dissecting, in a series of essays, a variety of narrative forms, interrogating modes of ...
Knots: Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought
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By David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman
October 08, 2024
Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island ...
Africa and Urban Anthropology: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
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By Deborah Pellow, Suzanne Scheld
October 04, 2024
This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition ...
Human Trafficking, Structural Violence, and Resilience: Ethnographic Life Narratives from the Philippines
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By Amie L. Lennox
May 27, 2024
This book explores and examines human trafficking in Eastern Mindanao in the Philippines, and the social conditions which facilitate and maintain this exploitation. Through a combination of ethnographic research and life-narrative interviews, the book tells the stories of those who have ...
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures
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By EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Silvia Posocco
September 25, 2023
This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of ...
Time and Its Object: A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images
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By Paolo Fortis, Susanne Küchler
September 26, 2022
This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective. ...
The Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union: Village Fascists and their Rivals
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By Juraj Buzalka
April 29, 2022
Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of protest and considers how the origins of political movements – progressive and reactionary – derive from resilient agrarian features. It draws attention to how the legacy of rural socialist ...
Surfaces: Transformations of Body, Materials and Earth
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By Mike Anusas, Cristián Simonetti
December 13, 2021
In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and ...
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand: Fitting In and Sticking Out
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By Anjalee Cohen
December 13, 2021
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the intersection of global capitalism, state ideologies, and local culture. Drawing on over 15 years of ethnographic research, the book explores the impact of rapid urbanisation ...