Westview Case Studies in Anthropology

Westview Case Studies in Anthropology presents new ethnographies in an engaging and accessible format that will appeal to professionals and students alike. Recognizing the peoples we study as active agents enmeshed in global as well as local systems of politics, economics, and cultural flows, this series advances the concerns of traditional ethnography with innovative approaches to data, theory, and representational style.

The ethnographies in this series focus on contemporary ways of life, forces of social change, and creative responses to novel situations, providing a rich humanistic and social scientific perspective built from the observed complexity of on-the-ground experience. In so doing, the series aims toward the full pedagogical potential of anthropology, conceived as fostering an empathetic understanding of alternative ways of viewing and acting in the world while also critically considering the culturally contingent nature of knowledge.

Edward F. Fischer, series editor

Muslim Youth

Tensions And Transitions In Tajikistan by Colette Harris

Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the peoples of Central Asia (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) have been exposed to new, Western influences that stress ... More

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The Iraqw of Tanzania

Negotiating Rural Development by Katherine Snyder

Based on the author's fieldwork, the author considers the rural development of the Iraqw of Tanzania--a little-studied group of mixed pastoralist-agriculturalists. ... More

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Tanners of Taiwan

Life Strategies and National Culture by Scott Simon

An ethnography of the leather-tanning industry in Southern Taiwan, Tanners of Taiwan examines what it means to be Chinese. ... More

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Black Skins, French Voices

Caribbean Ethnicity And Activism In Urban France by David Beriss

About 337,000 people of French Antillean Origin live in metropolitan France today. Unlike immigrants from North Africa, Turkey or sub-Saharan Africa, Antilleans are French citizens with deep roots in ... More

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From Mukogodo To Maasai
Ethnicity And Cultural Change In Kenya		Cronk, LeePaperbackAug 5, 2004
Namoluk Beyond The Reef
The Transformation Of A Micronesian Community		Marshall, MacPaperbackMar 11, 2004
The Lao
Gender, Power, and Livelihood		Moreno-Black, Geraldine
Ireson-Doolittle, Carol		PaperbackSep 11, 2003
Magical Writing In Salasaca
Literacy And Power In Highland Ecuador		Wogan, PeterPaperbackJul 31, 2003
Daughters of Tunis
Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City		Holmes-Eber, PaulaPaperbackAug 13, 2002
Fulbe Voices
Marriage, Islam, And Medicine In Northern Cameroon		Regis, HelenPaperbackAug 13, 2002
Tecpan Guatemala
A Modern Maya Town In Global And Local Context		Fischer, Edward F.
Hendrickson, Carol		PaperbackAug 12, 2002