The Anonymous Society
Identity, Transformation and Anonymity in 12 Step Associations
The Anonymous Society is an in-depth anthropological study conducted in Portugal among the 12-Step associations Alcoholics Anonymous, Families Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Here, the author explores thoroughly issues like therapy, addiction, ritual, religion, identity and anonymity, providing an insightful knowledge of these associations’ importance in contemporary society.
An anthropological look inside 12-Step groups. This in-depth study explores how ritual, therapy, and anonymity combat addiction, revealing the vital role these associations play in contemporary society.
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Beyond the Genre
Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers
What is the cultural value of travel writing today? How is the genre affected by instant communication and digital technologies? This volume provides answers to these questions through adopting a transmedial perspective by comparing printed travel books and travel blogs. Notably, it explores how different editorial and medial choices impact on the cultural practices of travelling and writing. Methodologically, an ethnography is proposed via the discussion of a number of original interviews (collected over three years) with contemporary travel authors and bloggers, who journeyed around (and wrote about)…
What is the value of travel writing in a digital age? This volume compares printed books and travel blogs to explore how media choices impact writing and travel. Based on interviews with Western and Chinese writers in China, it deconstructs the genre’s traditional ethnocentrism.
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Becoming an Anthropologist
A Memoir and a Guide to Anthropology
Mars’ graphic and often vivid narrative can be read simply as the anecdotal memoirs of an anthropologist. The experiences he recounts are sometimes hilarious, touch occasionally on the dangerous, and are always sensitively and expertly explored. But for those who want to know more, the book’s expansive footnotes and references to key sources also offer a stimulating introduction to social anthropology, its theories and its methods. Mars begins by describing his childhood life in a tightly structured working class community during World War Two. He then contrasts this with an…
An anthropologist’s vivid memoirs recount experiences that are hilarious, dangerous, and expertly explored. From a WWII working-class community to cultures around the world, his insights illuminate other societies and our own. A stimulating introduction to social anthropology.
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Humans, Other Beings and the Environment
Harurwa (Edible Stinkbugs) and Environmental Conservation in Southeastern Zimbabwe
Humans, Other Beings and the Environment is an ethnographic study of the possibilities for the mutual, symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests. The result of extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of thirteen months, the book highlights the continuum among humans, wild insects and environmental conservation outcomes in a specific environment of southeastern Norumedzo in rural Zimbabwe. In this respect, it describes interactions and relationships between humans, other beings and the natural forests to demonstrate how…
Mawere presents an ethnographic case study of the possibilities for the symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests, and highlights the continuum among humans, insects and environmental conservation outcomes in rural Zimbabwe.
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Classrooms and Playgrounds
Mapping Educational Change, Kerala
What is schooling in our contemporary societies? Is it to equip students for functioning in an information culture and to develop skills that would enable them to become productive agents in a fast globalizing world? Or is it to develop the capability to think and analyze? Mapping the complex transitions that mark primary education today in the state of Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights, both empirical and theoretical. Schooling here implies a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to processes of teaching and learning of…
Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.
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The Nomadic Subject
Postcolonial Identities on the Margins
This volume is an exploration of the image that is the Traveller/Gypsy, the nomad, the migrant and the outsider/“Other” within the frames of articulation that are the present-day flows of cultural diaspora and mass globalisation. Mass-media dissemination and the combination of a range of complex social and cultural forces and movements have all served to rupture and blurr the borders of the post-Enlightenment, modern nation-state. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of postcolonial diasporas such as Travellers, Roma and other “traditionally” nomadic groups, groups whose migrations have…
This book explores the image of the Traveller, nomad, migrant, and outsider amid cultural diaspora and globalisation. With a focus on the experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma, these essays resonate with the hybrid narratives of many Western countries today.
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Lying Beyond Scruples
The Open Lie and Transparent Manipulation in the Age of Mentirocracy
Lies and manipulations have long been part of social life, but the rise of Trump and Trumpism has made these practices excessively blatant and obscene, challenging our ability to respond effectively. This book explores this shift through sociological, anthropological, philosophical, and communicological perspectives, analysing the emergence of a new form of lying and manipulation—anti-/non-/post-truthful, anti-/non-/post-ethical, and anti-/non-/post-reflexive. Using the Slovenian case of Trump-inspired practices, Kotnik presents an analytical model of resistance as a means of self-empowerment against these disruptive and harmful tactics. She examines how open liars and transparent…
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
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How does Europe’s economic crisis affect the ways in which industry and entrepreneurship are experienced on a grassroots level? The book offers an answer to this question by exploring the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and the downturn of its principal industry. Through the experiences of its inhabitants, the study investigates the social role that jewellery production had in Valenza and provides an ethnographic account of the crisis the city endures. This analysis delves into the relationship between a community and its industry in order to understand the social and…
How does Europe’s economic crisis affect industry on a grassroots level? This book explores the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and its industry’s downturn through the experiences of its inhabitants to understand the challenges Italy and Europe will face.
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Associations and Other Groups in Science
An Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Associations and Other Groups in Science: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective brings together a collection of texts on the subject of scientific associations and their role in science and society. It combines historical approaches, focused on the role that associations (and other groups) played in the development of particular scientific disciplines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with contemporary analyses that highlight the involvement of associations in engagement with wider publics. A somewhat neglected subject in the social studies of science, scientific associations provide an opportunity for reflecting on and…
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
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Anthropology and Development in a Globalized India
An Ethnography of Sericulture from the South
The book tries to portray sericulture, as a crop enterprise, and which is emerged as one of the foremost view in the theoretical and methodological understanding in the disciplines of Sociology and Social Anthropology in India. Thus, anthropological analysis of sericulture and its emergence in the development literature gives us an idea of the activity leads to further theoretical and critical studies. Anthropological understanding of the sericulture and its development, thus, is explained thoroughly as studied by the scholars of the different disciplines in across the states of…
This book offers an anthropological and sociological view of sericulture in India, analyzing its emergence as a vital enterprise for rural development and employment. This interdisciplinary study is useful to scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, and Development Studies.
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Narratives and Songs from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste
Voices of the Hunting Bows
This archive of endangered narratives and songs from the island of Atauro (Timor-Leste) was gathered between 2014 and 2023 against a backdrop of a changing world. The oral traditions of Atauro’s three groups (Manroni, Humangili, Adadi) come together for the first time in this multilingual edition combining the local languages of Dadu’a, Rasua, Hresuk, Raklungu and Tetun with English translations. The large original corpus recounts the origin of Atauro Island, revealed when arrows pierce the sea, and many other tales as well as traditional song lyrics. These are complemented by…
This first-ever multilingual archive of endangered oral traditions from Atauro, Timor-Leste, was created in collaboration with the island’s communities. Discover tales of the island’s origin—revealed when arrows pierce the sea—alongside traditional songs and cultural texts.
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This book comprises eight essays concerned with the ethnography of Greece, and in particular of the village of Spartokhori on the small Ionian island of Meganisi, Lefkadha, where, between 1977 and 1980, the author conducted anthropological fieldwork. For the most part, the essays focus on aspects of family, kinship and gender as they were to be found in what was, in the 1970s, a remote, rural community. Greek society has, of course, undergone profound changes over the last forty years, and these essays thus serve to document a way of…
These essays document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Based on anthropological fieldwork in a remote Greek village in the 1970s, they focus on family, kinship, and gender, and the profound transformation of rural society as it was occurring at the time.
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This book highlights the significance of food and feasts, employing it as an analytical tool to understand a community’s social organisation. It also offers a detailed account of the life-cycle rituals that a community practices, which entail various kinship obligations to exchange food, considered to be one of the major gifts among the Newāḥ of Nepal. In analysing the kinship obligations, this book considers the married daughters' special role in the Newāḥ society. The ethnographic data collected from the Newāḥ of Nepal anthropologically illustrates how the socially-imbibed value structure permits…
This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters’ special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.
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This journal has been discontinued. Any issues are available to purchase separately.
This double-blinded peer-reviewed journal offers a forum for practitioners, students, community members, and faculty interested in all facets of business anthropology to exchange ideas and research.
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This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
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Indian society, with its blend of ancient grandeur and modernity, faces significant social and gender inequalities, similar to many traditional societies around the world. This volume highlights these aspects of human life through empirical anthropological research conducted over the past four decades. In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities stemming from gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies. Living in such a context often involves struggling to survive or maintain a higher status. This volume addresses these issues based on the empirical realities of life among various populations in different geographical regions…
In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities of gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies, a struggle for survival and status. This volume highlights these realities through four decades of empirical anthropological research across India, considering their historical roots.
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The Lionfish Effect
Reflections on Human-Lionfish Relations in The Bahamas
The Indo-Pacific lionfish is the highest-profile marine invasive species in the world. In The Bahamas, lionfish have developed particularly high population densities and are thought to pose a significant threat to the nation’s marine biodiversity and native fisheries given their insatiable appetite for other fish. Differing dominant narratives surrounding the lionfish issue in The Bahamas show that this invasive fish is not only an environmental issue, but also an undoubtedly political one. In this book, author Shireen Rahimi explores the dominant discourses surrounding lionfish and efforts to promote their killing…
In The Bahamas, the invasive lionfish is more than an environmental threat—it’s a political one. This book explores how efforts to control the lionfish reveal the ways societies adapt to planetary change, and how these adaptations are mediated by class, race, and power.
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The book charts the baseline of the transformation of sociological thought through a critical approach to two key works of sociological theory, Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method, and Giddens's New Rules of Sociological Method, works that in their day marked the canon of sociological thought, while today they have come to be seen as antiquated knowledge that needs to be overcome. In this book, Jiří Šubrt attempts - within the framework of an approach he calls 'critical eclecticism and reconfigurationism' - to outline approaches that should bring about desirable…
In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
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