An Anthropology of Robots and AI

Kathleen Richardson

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the ma... Lees meer

The Question of the Gift

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, inc... Lees meer

Rethinking Relation-Substance Dualism

Aurélie Névot

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This book analyses anthropological debates on "relationism" (referring to methodological and theoretical issues) and sets out to reconsider these disc... Lees meer

Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities

Sitara Thobani

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outs... Lees meer

Anthropology in the Making

Laurent Vidal

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology | nr. 16
• In Anthropology in the Making , Laurent Vidal takes the reader into the world of research in the fields of health and development, providing a fresh a... Lees meer

Critical Times in Greece

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book ... Lees meer

Distortion

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are... Lees meer

Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology | nr. 5
• This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropol... Lees meer

Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropol... Lees meer

Surfaces

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a ser... Lees meer

Orthodox Christian Material Culture

Timothy Carroll

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Drawing from and building upon Gell's work, Carroll comprehensively explores the uses and purposes of material culture in Eastern Orthodox Christian w... Lees meer

Suckling

Fadwa El Guindi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf, this book reenergises the study of kinship. It analyses the misunderstood and ma... Lees meer

The Biometric Border World

Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, ... Lees meer

Traveling Spirits

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of commun... Lees meer

Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the cont... Lees meer

Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Cancer is a transnational condition involving the unprecedented flow of health information, technologies, and people across national borders. Such mov... Lees meer

The Anthropology of Postindustrialism

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology | nr. 27
• This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While s... Lees meer

HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine

Graham Fordham

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized... Lees meer

Time and Its Object

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from th... Lees meer

Anthropology and Alterity

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This book bridges the gap between recent philosophical discourses on the Other and the necessities of empirical research in cultural anthropology. It ... Lees meer

Mambila Divination

David Zeitlyn

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to... Lees meer

Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe

Elizabeth Murphy-LeJeune

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Bringing together case studies and theory, this book is the first in-depth qualitative study of student migration within Europe. Drawing on the theory... Lees meer

An Anthropological Economy of Debt

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology | nr. 21
• Debt is often thought of as a mere economic variable governed by a simplistic mechanical logic, ignoring its other facets. Whose debt, and debt of wha... Lees meer

Islam, Standards, and Technoscience

Johan Fischer

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Anthropology | nr. 28
• This book explores the role of halal production, trade, and standards based on ethnographic material from Malaysia, Singapore, and Europe. It explains... Lees meer