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Identity Politics and the New Genetics
Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in the discussion of human identity. Of particular...
Conceptions
Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These ‘conceptions’ are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This...
Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky
Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility,...
Human Origins
Contributions from Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the...
Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
This volume provides intimate anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West. Amid increasing political turmoil and economic precarity, Muslim men around the world are enacting nurturing roles as husbands, sons, fathers,...
Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference
Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, reveals a diversity of reproductive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. Yet to date there has been very little reflection amongst scholars and practitioners in these fields concerning the relationship between the theoretical and engaged...
Cyprus and its Conflicts
Representations, Materialities, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and...
Domesticating Youth
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential...
Bishkek Boys
Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity and integration, author Philipp Schröder explores urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek from the vantage point of the male youth living in one neighbourhood. Touching on topics including authority, violence, social and imaginary geographies,...
The Making of the Greek Genocide
Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. And while few dispute the expulsion’s tragic scope, it remains the subject of fierce controversy, as activists have fought...
Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Chronic violence has characterized Somalia for over two decades, forcing nearly two million people to flee. A significant number have settled in camps in neighboring countries, where children were born and raised. Based on in-depth fieldwork, this book explores the experience of Somalis who grew up...
Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring...