Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Distortion: Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic
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By Nigel Rapport
August 14, 2020
Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or ...
Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven
1st Edition
By Timothy Carroll
August 14, 2020
Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gell’s work), there has been very little written on Orthodox Christianity and its use of material within religious self-formation. Eastern Orthodox ...
Bureaucracy, Integration and Suspicion in the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Mark Graham
June 30, 2020
This book explores how the often well-meaning routines and assumptions of a generous welfare state can reflect and even contribute to the stigmatisation of refugees and Muslims in Europe today. While the main cases are from Sweden, examples are included from the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and...
Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships
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By Charles Stépanoff, Jean-Denis Vigne
June 30, 2020
Domestication challenges our understanding of human-environment relationships because it blurs the dichotomy between what is artificial and what is natural. In domestication, biological evolution, environmental change, techniques and practices, anthropological trajectories and sociocultural ...
Slogans: Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism
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By Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon, Sheyla Zandonai
June 30, 2020
Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neoliberal governance, and civic subversion. Bringing together a collection of ethnographic studies from Greece, Slovakia, ...
After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath
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By James G. Carrier
December 12, 2019
After the Crisis: Anthropological Thought, Neoliberalism and the Aftermath offers a thought-provoking examination of the state of contemporary anthropology, identifying key issues that have confronted the discipline in recent years and linking them to neoliberalism, and suggesting how we might do ...
Freedom in Practice: Governance, Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday
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By Moises Lino e Silva, Huon Wardle
December 12, 2019
‘Freedom’ is one of the most fiercely contested words in contemporary global experience. This book provides an up-to-date overview from an anthropological perspective of the diverse ways in which freedom is understood and practised in everyday life, including the emergent relationships between ...
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities: Dancing on Empire's Stage
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By Sitara Thobani
December 12, 2019
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin. Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in the ...
On Knowing Humanity: Insights from Theology for Anthropology
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By Eloise Meneses, David Bronkema
December 12, 2019
The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropology’s exclusive rootedness in the ontology of secularism. When considered with the increased interest in the anthropology of religion as an area of study, it is clear that there is a ...
Anthropology and Alterity: Responding to the Other
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By Bernhard Leistle
December 10, 2019
Alterity or otherness is a central notion in cultural anthropology and philosophy, as well as in other disciplines. While anthropology, with its aim of understanding cultural difference, tends to take otherness as a fact, there have been vigorous attempts in contemporary philosophy, particularly in...
Meeting Ethnography: Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
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By Jen Sandler, Renita Thedvall
December 10, 2019
This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how ...
Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
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By Farida Fozdar, Kirsten McGavin
December 10, 2019
This volume offers a "southern," Pacific Ocean perspective on the topic of racial hybridity, exploring it through a series of case studies from around the Australo-Pacific region, a region unique as a result of its very particular colonial histories. Focusing on the interaction between "race" and ...