By Iracema H. Dulley

Roy Wagner’s work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as ‘group’ and ‘culture’ in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a…

Hardback – 2019-03-28
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Theorizing Ethnography

By Robert L. Anemone

Race and Human Diversity is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. Robert L. Anemone examines the biological basis of human difference and how humans have biologically and culturally adapted to life in different environments. The book…

Paperback – 2019-02-26
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Edited by Ann H. Kelly, Frédéric Keck, Christos Lynteris

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life…

Hardback – 2019-01-30
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Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

By Julie Park, Kathryn Scott, Deon York, Michael Carnahan

Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand provides a richly detailed analysis of the experience of the bleeding disorder of haemophilia based on longterm ethnographic research. The chapters consider experiences of diagnosis; how parents, children, and adults care and integrate medical routines into…

Hardback – 2019-01-29
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Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

Edited by Aaron Parkhurst, Timothy Carroll

Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors…

Hardback – 2019-01-10
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Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology

Edited by Tessa Diphoorn, Erella Grassiani

Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of “security blurs” to analyse manifestations of security that are visible and identifi able, yet constructed and made up of a myriad and overlapping set of actors, roles, motivations,…

Hardback – 2018-12-11
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Routledge Studies in Anthropology