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  • Exotic No More

    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropology in the Public Arena

    Historical and Contemporary Contexts

    ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC ARENA“A critical insider, Jeremy MacClancy celebrates maverick anthropologists who transgressed academic frontiers, and urges his colleagues to engage the public. This is an entertaining, original, and provocative book.”Adam Kuper, Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge“Jeremy MacClancy insightfully expands the history of anthropology beyond the confines of the ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Basque Sports: Histories, Identities, Politics, and Landscapes

    Series Book 3 - Basque Topics
    Basque Sports: Histories, Identities, Politics and Landscapes is the first book to offer a systematic review of Basque sport and its historical, political, anthropological, and sociological significance. The Basques have nurtured traditional sports like the ball game pelota, or baserri (farmstead)-inspired herriko kirolak (rural sports) for centuries. Basque soccer clubs were founding members of ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

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  • The Political Agency of British Migrants

    Brexit and Belonging

    This book offers a comparative analysis of the political agency of British migrants in Spain and France and explores how they struggle for a sense of belonging in the wake of Brexit.With the UK's departure from the European Union (EU), Britons are set to lose EU citizenship as their political rights are redefined. This book examines the impacts this is having on Britons living in two EU countries. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Anthropology and Public Service

    The UK Experience

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    These days an increasing number of social anthropologists do not find employment within academia. Rather, many find jobs with commercial organizations or in government, where they run research teams and create policy. These scholars provide a much-needed social dimension to government thinking and practice. Anthropology and Public Service shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Consuming the Inedible

    Neglected Dimensions of Food Choice

    Series Book 6 - Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
    Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Centralizing Fieldwork

    Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology

    Series Book 4 - Rethinking Biosocial Anthropology
    Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology, biological anthropology, and social anthropology, to look critically at this key research ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Contesting Art

    Art, Politics and Identity in the Modern World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    Series series Ethnicity and Identity
    Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture.This pioneering book breaks with the tradition of the anthropology of art as the depoliticized ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Ethics in the Field

    Contemporary Challenges

    Series Book 7 - Rethinking Biosocial Anthropology
    In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological disciplines—social and biological anthropology and primatology—come ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    The Impact of Neo-Liberalism and Austerity Politics on Welfare Provision

    by Ian Cummins ...
    This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision.It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus on relational and community approaches as the cornerstone of practice.Applying theoretical frameworks ... Read more

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  • Race and Planning

    The UK Experience

    by Huw Thomas ...
    Drawing on a number of research studies of planning and urban policy, ace and Planning asks why racial equality has not been higher on professional and government agendas, and suggests strategies for those working on change. It considers key issues such as how planning activities might lead to more emphasis on the significance of racial equality; might currently it be unwittingly underpinning ... Read more

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  • Migrations

    Ireland in a global world

    Edited by Mary Gilmartin, Allen White ...
    Series series Irish Society
    This edited collection explores Ireland’s complex relationship with migration in novel and innovative ways. The contributors – leading scholars of migration from the disciplines of anthropology, geography, history, media studies, sociology, sociolinguistics and women’s studies – draw on new research to provide insights into emigration from and immigration to Ireland, both past and present. The ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD