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  • Collaborations

    Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age

    Edited by Emma Heffernan, Fiona Murphy, Jonathan Skinner ...
    Collaborations responds to the growing pressure on the humanities and social sciences to justify their impact and utility after cuts in public spending, and the introduction of neoliberal values into academia. Arguing ‘in defense of’ anthropology, the editors demonstrate the continued importance of the discipline and reveal how it contributes towards solving major problems in contemporary society. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Interview

    An Ethnographic Approach

    Edited by Jonathan Skinner ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    What are new interview methods and practices in our new 'interview society' and how do they relate to traditional social science research? This volume interrogates the interview as understood, used - and under-used - by anthropologists. It puts the interview itself in the hotseat by exploring the nature of the interview, interview techniques, and illustrative cases of interview use.What is a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Writing the Dark Side of Travel

    Edited by Jonathan Skinner ...
    The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Leisure and Death

    An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying

    Edited by Adam Kaul, Jonathan Skinner ...
    This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Writing the Dark Side of Travel

    Edited by Jonathan Skinner ...
    The travel experience filled with personal trauma; the pilgrimage through a war-torn place; the journey with those suffering: these represent the darker sides of travel. What is their allure and how are they represented? This volume takes an ethnographic and interdisciplinary approach to explore the writings and texts of dark journeys and travels. In traveling over the dead, amongst the dying, and ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

  • Murals and Tourism

    Heritage, Politics and Identity

    Edited by Jonathan Skinner, Lee Jolliffe ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being visited, whether a medieval fresco in an Italian church, or modern ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Geographies of Dance

    Body, Movement, and Corporeal Negotiations

    by Frances Bronet, Georgia Connover, Tovi Fenster, Teresa Heiland, Tamara M. Johnson, Paromita Kar, Matthew Kurtz, Moriah McSharry, Jonathan Skinner, Katrinka Somdahl-Sands ...
    This volume provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between bodies, dance and space. Using ten case studies, it illustrates the symbolic power of dance that is crafted by choreographers and acted out by dancers. The book portrays a multitude of ways in which public and private spaces (stages, buildings, town squares as well as natural environments) are transformed and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    by Professor Ian Convery, Catherine Roberts, Chia-Li Chen, Claire Twigger-Ross, Diana Walters, Ellie Land, Esther Edwards, Gerard Corsane, Gordon Walker0, Graeme Were1, Hugh Deeming2, Isabelle Lackman3, James Gardner4, Jo Besley5, John Welshman6, Jonathan Skinner7, Josephine Baxter8, Maggie Mort9, Marc Ancrenaz0, Marion Walker1, Professor Peter Davis3, Mark Wilson4, Özgün Emre Can5, Pat Caplan6, Peter Lurz7, Phil O'Keefe8, Philip R Stone9, Rebecca Whittle0, Richard Johnson1, Rob Morley2, Andy Law3, Rupert Ashmore4, Sarah Elliot5, Shalini Sharma6, Stephen Miles7, Susannah Eckersley8, Takashi Harada9, Tim Padley0, William Medd1, Aron Mazel2, Athur McIvor3, Billy Sinclair4, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir5, Bryony Onciul6 ...
    The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Refugee Tales: Volume III

    by Monica Ali, Bernardine Evaristo, Patrick Gale, Gillian Slovo, Lisa Appignanesi, David Constantine, Ian Sansom, Lytton Smith, Emma Parsons, Jonathan Skinner, Jonathan Wittenberg, Roma Tearne, David Herd ...
    Series Book 3 - Refugee Tales
    With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Dancing Cultures

    Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

    Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner ...
    Series Book 4 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dancing Cultures

    Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance

    Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner ...
    Series Book 4 - Dance and Performance Studies
    Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance ... Read more

    Was $31.99 USD Now $23.99 USD

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    Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across…A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape…An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on ... Read more

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