Deborah Cameron

Elizabeth Frazer

Penelope Harvey

Kay Richardson

M. B. H. Rampton

Originally published in 1992. This book discusses the possibilities of developing the research process in social science so that it benefits the subjects as well as the researcher. The authors distinguish between ‘ethical’, ‘advocate’ and ‘empowering’ approaches to the relationship between researcher and researched, linking these to different ideas about the nature of knowledge, action, language, and social relations. They then use a series of empirical case studies to explore the possibilities for ‘empowering research’. The book is the product of dialogue between researchers from a range of disciplines (anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and linguistics) and is for those working across the social sciences. Through combination of philosophical discussion, methodological recommendation and case-study illustration, it provides guidance that is practical without being simplistic.

Issues of Power and Method

Researching Language

Peter Gow

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Issues in Representation and Experience

Sex and Violence

Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory - the target of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with questionable viability in the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of the Universal Exhibition held in Seville in 1992, the themes of culture, nationality and technology are explored. Particular attention is paid to how 'culture' is produced and put to work by the national and corporate participants, and to the relationship between the emergence of culture as a commodity and the way in which the concept is employed in contemporary cultural theory. Hybrids of Modernity will appeal to students in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.

Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition

Hybrids of Modernity

Penelope Harvey

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