The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making eating and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will... Lees meer.

Drawing on new anthropological approaches John Winkler considers the lives of men and women in Ancient Greece. For centuries classical scholars have intensely debated the position of women in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power or were the... Lees meer.

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human... Lees meer.

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The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood sim... Lees meer.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender... Lees meer.

This edited collection attempts to revive a unified anthropological approach to the study of sex and gender hierarchies. Seventeen distinguished contributors - from cultural anthropology physical anthropology archaeology and anthropological linguistics - have produce... Lees meer.

The Chambri of Papua New Guinea are well known as being the Tchambuli of Margaret Mead s influential work Sex and Temperament in which she described them as a people among whom in contrast to Western society women dominated over men. In this book however Frederi... Lees meer.

Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge brings feminist anthropology up to date highlighting the theoretical sophistication that characterizes recent research. Twelve essays by outstanding scholars written with the volume s concerns specifically in mind range across th... Lees meer.

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence. Global Responses Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory methods and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal soci... Lees meer.

This book recounts the author s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This book recounts the author s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure the femminiello has found... Lees meer.

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-uni... Lees meer.

This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family gender and kinship in Australia which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that... Lees meer.

Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change.... Lees meer.

The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country s low HIV prevalence rate. However by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care progr... Lees meer.