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

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.

This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

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.

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.

From the social space of a cybercafe to cities in India, the UK and South Africa among others, this book features a wide range of ethnographic studies that offer different ways of looking at the concepts of 'locality' and 'site'.

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.

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.

Examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. This book theorizes the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations of a globalizing world.

Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.