Bücher der Reihe ASA Monographs

This edited collection provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination.

Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings.

Ritual, performance and media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology. This text brings an anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the past decade.

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A study which attempts to formulate an anthropological approach to consciousness. This text explores the importance of the conscious self, and of the "conscious collectively", in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

Focuses on the anthropological concept of "future". Less concerned with prediction than in the causes and consequences of images of the future held in specific contexts of time or place, it aims to interpret the way we and others picture it and then to understand the effects that this has.

This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.

The aim of this volume is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, the consequences of the rise of rights discussions and institutions in both local and global politics.

This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations.

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal.

Living Beings examines the vital characteristics of social interactions between living beings, including humans, other animals and trees.

Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been slower to repay the compliment. This volume argues for greater collaboration and highlights the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Essential reading for scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.

Summarising current debates and offering new approaches for this expanding field of study, Thinking Through Tourism will appeal to students across a range of disciplines.

Explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. The book shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions, and also examines the relation between creativity and the perception and passage of time.

Are reports of the death of conventional fieldwork in anthropology greatly exaggerated? This book takes a critical look at the latest developments and key issues in fieldwork.

Presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world. This book addresses the nature of both scientific and experiential knowledge, and looks at competing and alternative ideas about what it means to be human.

This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives.

This volume interrogates the use of interviews by placing the interview itself in the hot-seat exploring its nature, interview techniques, and illustrative case studies. Also addressing key issues such as awkwardness, silence and censorship, The Interview will appeal to social scientists and anthropologists.