Anthropology

"...a wealth of sound, succinct advice on how to plan and conduct ethnographic fieldwork, how to organize and analyze information, and how to write up coherently."

A practical and methodological toolkit, Doing Anthropological Research works through the research process chapter by chapter, from the planning and proposal stage to methodologies, secondary research, ethnographic fieldwork, ethical concerns, and writing strategies.

If you are teaching and would like to receive a complimentary copy to consider for using on your course, please follow this link.

In the second edition of this popular textbook, Jack David Eller provides a refreshingly new vision of the discipline and its subject matter - human diversity. Click here to read more and purchase.

Instructors: If you would like to receive a complimentary exam copy of Cultural Anthropology to consider for your course, please follow this link.

Routledge is pleased to announce that we have released this collection of reissues covering a broad range of areas from across the field of Anthropology, including religion and marriage, cultural identity, symbolism and kinship.

The London School of Economics Review of Books has written a glowing review of Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives 2nd Edition over at their website.

Reviewer Sneha Krishnan highlights Jack David Eller's "engaging style and critical rigour" and praises the book as "a competent and thorough introduction to cultural anthropology, and a very important addition to the resources for teaching in that discipline". Read the full review here.

Globalization From Below is a must read for students of globalization, economic anthropology and developing-world economics.

Congratulations to Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura for winning the 2013 Ruth Benedict Prize awarded by the Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA), for The Transgender Studies Reader 2. 

For over 100 years, Routledge has been shaping intellectual life. Our writers have been some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, asking the questions that demand to be answered. In July 2013, Routledge celebrates this heritage with our Great Minds series: ten of the best, controversial and illuminating books from Routledge Classics.

For our lucky anthropology readers, we’ve an exclusive interview with Patrick Wilcken, foreword author to Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Myth and Meaning.