Books in the ASA Monographs series

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.

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

A study which attempts to formulate an anthropological approach to consciousness. This text explores the importance of the conscious self, and of the "conscious collectively", in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

Focuses on the anthropological concept of "future". Less concerned with prediction than in the causes and consequences of images of the future held in specific contexts of time or place, it aims to interpret the way we and others picture it and then to understand the effects that this has.

With fourteen articles written by well-known anthropologists, this book addresses the theme of representation in anthropology and explores the directions in which anthropology is moving following the debates of the 1980s.

This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings.

The aim of this volume is to understand, from an anthropological perspective, the consequences of the rise of rights discussions and institutions in both local and global politics.

This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Focuses on the cultural sites of creativity that form part of our social matrix. This book explores the ways creative agency is attributed in the graphic and performing arts and in intellectual property law. It shows how the sources of creativity are embedded in social, political and religious institutions.

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.

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.

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

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.

In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to acknowledge, explore and interpret divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning.

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.