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This book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation.

This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination.

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

Examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. This book theorizes the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations of a globalizing world.

Focusing on environmentalism, key issues discussed include the effects of state interests and bureaucracies on environmental activism, and the responses of indigenous peoples to industrial exploitation and their subsequent representation in environmentalist discourse.

This edited collection provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

Summarising current debates and offering new approaches for this expanding field of study, Thinking Through Tourism will appeal to students across a range of disciplines.

Summarising current debates and offering new approaches for this expanding field of study, Thinking Through Tourism will appeal to students across a range of disciplines.

In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to acknowledge, explore and interpret divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning.

This volume interrogates the use of interviews by placing the interview itself in the hot-seat exploring its nature, interview techniques, and illustrative case studies. Also addressing key issues such as awkwardness, silence and censorship, The Interview will appeal to social scientists and anthropologists.

Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been slower to repay the compliment. This volume argues for greater collaboration and highlights the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Essential reading for scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.

Through detailed case studies covering a wide range of related issues, Ownership and Appropriation provides a new approach to this key anthropological topic.

Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork.

Through detailed case studies covering a wide range of related issues, Ownership and Appropriation provides a new approach to this key anthropological topic.

Presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world. This book addresses the nature of both scientific and experiential knowledge, and looks at competing and alternative ideas about what it means to be human.

From the social space of a cybercafe to cities in India, the UK and South Africa among others, this book features a wide range of ethnographic studies that offer different ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'.

Explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time to the way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experience our lives. This book reflects on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past, and how far the structuring of social time is a human universal.

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.

This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

Contemporary Futures explores the implications of visualising the future and the consequences this has on the present and on our relationship with other cultures.

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.

Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.

Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings.

At a time when socialism appears to be on the wane, anthropological analyses of its origins and worldwide diffusion are long overdue. This book presents diverse examples of ideals and realities and offers detailed ethnographic accounts of specific groups.

With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving followi ng the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s.

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been slower to repay the compliment. This volume argues for greater collaboration and highlights the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Essential reading for scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.