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Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-human Worlds (2019)
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Russell, A. (2019). Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-human Worlds. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351050197

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own, contentious, global sto... Read More about Anthropology of Tobacco: Ethnographic Adventures in Non-human Worlds.

Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race (2018)
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Egorova, Y. (2018). Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199856237.001.0001

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitudes towards one another do not often make headlines. In the European imagination, Jews and Muslims have b... Read More about Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race.

Green Ice. Tourism Ecologies in the European High North (2016)
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Abram, S., & Lund, K. (2017). Green Ice. Tourism Ecologies in the European High North. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58736-7

Tourism has been expanding rapidly in the European Arctic alongside growing international interest in the Arctic as a site of extreme, palpable climate change. This chapter explores the idea of tourism ecologies, tracing the development of tourism in... Read More about Green Ice. Tourism Ecologies in the European High North.

Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic (2014)
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Widger, T. (2015). Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315743707

Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and... Read More about Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic.