Bøger i European Association of Social Anthropologists serien

People create new opportunities and conditions in response to change, and these responses are influenced by gender and age. This collection examines responses to development and social and political change through this prism of gender.

The first collection of papers taken from the first conference of the EASA, discussing the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.

This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology with examples from areas such as Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon.

Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world examineing how social anthropology must update its methodology as it is applied to comparisons across space and time

Offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex, gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology.

This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions all of those involved in local development schemes.

The contributors explore the issues of agency and power which motivate the conflicting discourses surrounding syncretism, that is the mixing of different religious traditions within a culture.

This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy.

The study of wars in Sarajevo and Sri Lanka as well as numerous less publicised conflicts, aim to create a theory of violence as cross-culturally applicable as possible. This book develops a method of cross-cultural analysis.

Tracing the process from the fieldwork to the analysis of results, this book demonstrates how the ethnographer arrives at an understanding not only of 'culture' and 'society', but also of the ways in which cultures and societies evolve.

Recasting Ritual, uses worldwide case studies to explore how ritualized action changes in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts.

Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the relationship between identity and territory with case studies from Indonesia, Zanzibar, Argentina, South Africa and the UK.

This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology with examples from areas such as Austria, Greenland, Portugal, Turkey and the Amazon.

Using historical and ethnographic material, mainly from Europe, "Other Histories" examines the nature of history and its importance to anthropological study. The Eurocentric perspective of this book serves the purpose of dismantling the unity and progress of European history.

Offers an examination of current debates focusing on sex, gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology.

Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opposition to the state. To gain a better understanding, everyday social practices, power relations and shared moralities are examined.

The contributors explore the issues of agency and power which motivate the conflicting discourses surrounding syncretism, that is the mixing of different religious traditions within a culture.

This book argues that policy has become an increasingly central concept in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence.

The first collection of papers taken from the first conference of the EASA, discussing the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.

This book focuses on the nature/society interface from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, drawing upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies.

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.

Contributes various new analyses and approaches to the issue of community - such as destabilization in the global context, cultural absoluteness, separation of community and culture, compartmentalized communities.

Within any society, rituals create, maintain and transform cultural identity and social relations. Daniel de Coppet presents six different contributions on how to understand ritual within the frame of contemporary social anthropology.

Contributes various analyses and approaches to the issue of community - such as destabilization in the global context, cultural absoluteness, separation of community and culture, and compartmentalized communities. The book argues that this area of anthropological study has scope for development.

For the anthropologists, people-wildlife conflicts readily invite symbolic analysis. This volume examines people-wildlife conflicts in Europe, Africa and Asia from an anthropological perspective.

Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the relationship between identity and territory with case studies from Indonesia, Zanzibar, Argentina, South Africa and the UK.

Recasting Ritual, uses worldwide case studies to explore how ritualized action changes in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts.

Civil Society argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opposition to the state. To gain a better understanding, everyday social practices, power relations and shared moralities are examined.

This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy.

This book brings together 14 studies of the history of European anthropology from the 17th century onwards, each of which have great relevance for current debates within the discipline.