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Material Worlds eBook Series

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  • Cosmopolitan Archaeologies

    by Jane Lydon, Ian A. Lilley, Denis Byrne ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Studies

    The Key Concepts

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its fourth edition, this popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize postcolonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity.Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition contains more than 30 new entries, including:AnthropoceneBiopoliticsDecolonialityEcocriticismGlobal ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Critical Indigenous Studies

    Engagements in First World Locations

    Edited by Aileen Moreton-Robinson ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
    With increasing speed, the emerging discipline of critical Indigenous studies is expanding and demarcating its territory from Indigenous studies through the work of a new generation of Indigenous scholars. Critical Indigenous Studies makes an important contribution to this expansion, disrupting the certainty of disciplinary knowledge produced in the twentieth century, when studying Indigenous ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology

    Edited by Alan Barnard, Jonathan Spencer ...
    Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography, it includes 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items. The fully revised and expanded ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion To Postcolonial Studies

    Edited by John McLeod ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies offers a unique and up-to-date mapping of the postcolonial world, and is composed of essays as well as shorter entries for ease of reference. Introducing students to the history of the great European empires and the cultural legacies created in their wake, this book brings together an international range of contributors on such topics as:the colonial ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Land Education

    Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives

    Edited by Kate McCoy, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie ...
    This important book on Land Education offers critical analysis of the paths forward for education on Indigenous land. This analysis discusses the necessity of centring historical and current contexts of colonization in education on and in relation to land. In addition, contributors explore the intersections of environmentalism and Indigenous rights, in part inspired by the realisation that the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edited by Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Gender Pluralism

    Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

    by Michael G. Peletz ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less receptive to difference, sometimes ... Read more

    $76.99 USD