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  • LOCATING THE FIELD
    PETER COLLINS / SIMON COLEMAN
    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. The nature of 'locality' itself is problematic for both research subjects and fieldworkers, on the grounds that it must now be maintained and represented in relation to widening (and fragmenting) social f...

    $979.00

  • THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP
    SANDRA BELL / SIMON COLEMAN
    Friendship is usually seen as a vital part of most people's lives in the West. From our friends, we hope to derive emotional support, advice and material help in times of need. In this pioneering book, basic assumptions about friendship are examined from a cross-cultural point of view. Is friendship only a western conception or is it possible to identify friends in such places ...

    $1,039.00

  • RELIGION, IDENTITY AND CHANGE
    SIMON COLEMAN
    Religion is of enduring importance in the lives of many people, yet the religious landscape has been dramatically transformed in recent decades. Established churches have been challenged by eastern faiths, revivals of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and the eclectic spiritualities of the New Age. Religion has long been regarded by social scientists and psychologists as a ...

    $1,299.00

  • MULTI-SITED ETHNOGRAPHY
    SIMON COLEMAN
    This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George Marcus himself, the person most associated with the term and the method. These res...

    $1,399.00

  • REFRAMING PILGRIMAGE
    COLEMAN, SIMON / EADE, JOHN
    Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility. The contributors consider the meanings of pilgrimage in Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Islamic and Sufi traditions, as well as in secular contexts, and they create a new theory of pilgrimage as a form of voluntary displacement. This voluntary displacement helps t...

    $1,179.00