Books in the Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology series

* Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time. * Offers critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. * Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary.

* Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place. * Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life.

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. .

This book demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. * Moves beyond other "lesbian and gay studies" readers by presenting a broader view of the significance of studying same--sex cultures and sexualities across cultures.

* Gathers key anthropological and interdisciplinary writings on genocide together for the first time and explores attempts to define genocide. * Traces the history of genocide in the 20th century with discussion of the Holocaust, and examples from Bosnia, Cambodia, Africa, and Latin America.

Human Rights: An Anthropological Reader is a groundbreaking collection that brings together key works that demonstrate the important and unique contributions that anthropologists have made to the understanding and practice of human rights over the last 60 years.

* Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time. * Offers critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. * Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary.

During the 20th century tens of millions of people were annihilated by genocidal regimes. This title lays the foundation for an 'anthropology of genocide' by gathering together the seminal texts for learning about and understanding this phenomenon.

* Assembles key anthropological articles that challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place. * Reveals how both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production of social life.

The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world. .

Demonstrates the centrality of sex, gender, and sexuality to theories of human behaviors and practices. This title presents a broader view of the significance of studying same-sex cultures and sexualities across cultures.

* Combines classic theoretical texts with cutting edge anthropological works. * Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state". * Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.