Anthropology
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Wild Children — Domesticated Dreams
Civilization and the Birth of Education
Layla AbdelRahim
An anthropological analysis of education, this book is the first to examine the root cause of contemporary pedagogical systems from a truly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. This confluence of ethology and anthropology reveals that the very category “human” is a requirement of civilization contingent on domestication and submission to structural violence at the root of civilized pedagogical practices. /*… (more information)
Up in Nipigon Country
Anthropology as a Personal Experience
Edward J. Hedican
Fieldwork, once regarded as an essential pillar of social anthropology, has come under attack, especially from the post-modern school. Hedigan argues that for many in the discipline, an anthropology without fieldwork would appear to be a hollow, meaningless experience, devoid of its central epistemological value. This book, drawing on the author’s fieldwork experience among Ojibwa people in Northern Ontario, explores post-modernism’s critique of fieldwork and fieldwork’s contribution… (more information)
Small Places, Large Issues
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text provides a clear overview of anthropology, focusing on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Unlike other texts on the subject, Small Places, Large Issues incorporates… (more information)
Russia and Development
Development Policies in the former Soviet Union
Charles Buxton
For Lenin, Russia was the weak link in the chain of imperialism. In 1917 the chain broke and for 70 years the Bolsheviks’ state-led model of development stood out in radical opposition to the capitalism mainstream –up until the crash of the USSR in 1991. For present-day critics of the regime in Russia, criminal privatization and bureaucratic cronyism has reduced their country to 2nd class status as an oil and gas exporter on the periphery of the global economy. This unique and… (more information)
Protest Camps
Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, Patrick McCurdy
From Tahrir Square to St Paul’s Cathedral, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements’ activism across the world. They are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. Drawing on over 50 different protest camps from around the world over the past 50 years, this book offers a ground-breaking and detailed investigation… (more information)
Organize!
Building from the Local for Global Justice
Edited by Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Eric Shragge
How do we organize for progressive social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises? How do political activists build power and critical analysis into their daily work for change? Grounded in struggles in Canada, the USA, and Aotearoa/New Zealand, as well as transnational activist networks, Organize! links local organizing with global struggles for social justice. From organizing immigrant workers to mobilizing psychiatric survivors, from arts and activism… (more information)
Organisational Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
Edited by Christina Garsten, Anette Nyqvist
Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations. The book focuses on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of the organisation’s members. The contributors work from the premise that doing fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics with fieldwork in more ‘classical’ anthropological environments, but that it also poses some particular… (more information)
No Nonsense Guide to Equality
Danny Dorling
A wide-ranging exploration of why inequality persists and what can be done about it, the No-Nonsense Guide to Equality discusses the positive effects that equality can have, using examples and case studies from across the globe. It examines the lessons of history and covers race, gender and ethnicity, age, and wealth. Danny Dorling considers, realistically, just how equal it is possible to be, the challenges we face, and the factors that will lead to greater equality for all. (more information)
NGO-ization
Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Edited by Aziz Choudry, Dip Kapoor
The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and environmental justice? How has it challenged– or reinforced–the forces of capitalism and colonialism? And what political, economic, social and cultural interests does this serve? NGOization… (more information)
Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory
Scotia and Nova Scotia, c.1700-1990
Edited by Marjory Harper, Michael E. Vance
The essays in this volume, which are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, challenge us to consider critically the commonly held assumption that Nova Scotia is essentially Scottish in character. They do so by exploring the origin of the mythic understanding of the link between Scotland and Nova Scotia, by expanding the examination of Scottish influences from the customary focus on Highland migrants to also include mercantile, philanthropic and professional transatlantic connections, and by studying… (more information)
Men and Development
Politicizing Masculinities
Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström, Alan Greig
Men and Development: Politicizing Masculinities features an exciting collection of contributions from some of today’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both men’s and women’s lives… (more information)
In Foreign Fields
The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration
Thomas Carter
Despite a great deal of romance surrounding international celebrity athletes, the vast majority of transnational sport migrants–players, journalists, coaches, administrators and medical personnel–toil far away from the limelight. Based on twelve years of ethnographic research conducted on three continents, Thomas F. Carter traces their lives, routes and experiences, documenting their travels and travails. He argues that far from the ease of mobility that celebrity sports stars enjoy,… (more information)
Humans and Other Animals
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions
Samantha Hurn
Humans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals. Case studies from a wide range of cultural contexts are discussed, and readers are invited to engage with a diverse range of human-animal interactions including blood sports (such as hunting, fishing and bull-fighting), pet-keeping and ‘petishism’, eco… (more information)
History of Anthropology
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also considered. The book provides an unparalleled account of theoretical developments in anthropology… (more information)
Ethnicity and Nationalism, 3rd edition
Anthropological Perspectives
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Ethnicity and nationalism are pervasive features of the contemporary world, but how far is ethnicity a result of cultural differences, and how much is it in fact dependent on the practical use of, and belief in, such differences? In this book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relationships. Drawing on a wide range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Eriksen examines… (more information)
Ecological Hoofprint
The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock
Tony Weis
The meat on our plates kills the planet. With global mass production of livestock reaching ever higher levels to feed an exploding world population’s demand, mankind’s ecological hoofprint reaches critical heights. The Ecological Hoofprint provides a rigorous and eye-opening analysis of global livestock production. Following his previous groundbreaking Zed book The Global Food Economy, Tony Weis shows what this production means for the health of the planet, how it contributes… (more information)
Discovering Cape Breton Folklore
Richard MacKinnon
For more than two decades, Richard MacKinnon — Canada Research Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage, Cape Breton University — has researched Cape Breton’s rich cultural heritage: from protest songs to company houses, from co-operative housing to nicknames, from log buildings to cockfighting. In Discovering Cape Breton Folklore, professor MacKinnon revisits some of his research and exposes us to some new. (more information)
Depicting the Veil
Transnational Sexism and the War on Terror
Robin Lee Riley
This powerful book exposes how gendered Orientalism is wielded to justify Western imperialism. Over the last ten years, Western governments and mainstream media have utilized concepts of white masculine supremacy and feminine helplessness, juxtaposed with Orientalist images depicting women of color as mysterious, sinister and dangerous to support war. Oscillating between ‘Mrs. Anthrax’, female suicide bombers and tragic, helpless victims, representations of ‘brown women… (more information)
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality
Vered Amit
Globalisation has dislocated community relations, and yet notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are. This book examines the changing nature of community through an exploration of mobile subjects, such as migrants and business travellers, and the tension between culturally specific notions of identity and a universal sense of humanity. The authors develop a ‘cosmopolitan anthropology’ which engages with both the specific and the universal. This book offers a new… (more information)
Catastrophism
The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
James Davis, Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen
Our world is reeling from dire economic crises and ecological disasters. Visions of the apocalypse and impending doom abound. Governments warn that no alternative exists to taking the bitter medicine they prescribe. Catastrophism explores the politics of apocalypse—on the left and right, in the environmental movement, and from capital and the state—and examines why the lens of catastrophe distorts our understanding of the dynamics at the heart of numerous disasters and fatally… (more information)
Capability of Places
Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change
Sandra Wallman
How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them. In this magisterial work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Each locale is examined… (more information)
Anthropology’s World
Life in a Twenty-First Century Discipline
Ulf Hannerz
In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work. Raising fundamental questions such as ‘What is anthropology really about?’, ‘How does the public understand, or misunderstand, anthropology?’ and ‘What and where do anthropologists study now, and for whom do they write?’ Hannerz invites anthropologists to think again about where their… (more information)
Anthropology of Mothering
Edited by Naomi McPherson, Michelle Walks
In anthropology, cross-cultural research is fundamental. In relation to “mothering,” cross-cultural research becomes enlightening, not only to understand the practices of so-called Others, but also to understanding ourselves. The Anthropology of Mothering has developed fairly unnoticed until the last couple of years, when an increase of research, attention, and respect has suddenly appeared. In this light, An Anthropology of Mothering draws attention to recent anthropological research… (more information)