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.

There is no one explanation for the multiple expressions of gender. Rather many influences shape any individual s self-image and gender presentation. Among those influences have been advances in both philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. They have each contributed to o... 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.

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.

Explores gender relations in Muslim societies using post-Soviet Tajikistan as a central case-study. Control and Subversion investigates the relationship of gender to the inner workings of social control such as exposing ways in which post-Soviet Tajikistan society... 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.

This new book draws on anthropology feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Written not just for professional scholars and for students but for anyone with a serious interest in how gender a... Lees meer.

This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka 1884 1921 is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka together with Bronis aw Malinowski studied anthropolog... Lees meer.

This book is about the varying difficulties experienced by women with professional careers in post-bubble Japan where they are persistently treated by the state and employers as a pool of cheap contingent resources for the benefit of the broader economy. This book... Lees meer.

Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend... Lees meer.

How religion gender and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene these teleserials in... 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 is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives and includes detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. Bartered Brides is a detailed study of m... Lees meer.

In this ambitious new book Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between anthrop... 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.