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ASA Monographs and other publications

This is a complete list of our publications to date. Members are reminded that they are entitled to purchase some of these volumes at a discount. Orders should be directed to the publishers and not the ASA:

• ASA Monographs 1-12 and 23-, ASA Research Methods 3- are published by Routledge.
• ASA Monographs 13-22 and ASA Research Methods 1-2 are published by Academic Press.
• The ASA Monographs 1-10 are also available in digital form on CD from the ASA administrator: click here to order.
• ASA Essays are published by ISHI: UK and European sales are now handled by Eurospan Ltd., 3 Henrietta Street, London, WC2E 8LU.
• ASA Studies. Originally published by Malaby Press. Volumes 1 and 3 are out of print. Volume 2 has been reissued by Tavistock.

The monograph from ASA04 came out in June 06; monographs from ASA03 and ASA05 in April 07; the ASA06 monograph will come out in 2008.

ASA Monographs 1-12 (Tavistock Publications, now part of Routledge)

1. The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology (1965), ed M Banton
2. Political Systems and the Distribution of Power (1965), ed M Banton
3. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (1966), ed M Banton
4. The Social Anthropology of Complex Societies (1966), ed M Banton
5. The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (1967), ed E R Leach
6. Themes in Economic Anthropology (1967), ed R Firth
7. History and Social Anthropology (1968), ed I M Lewis
8. Socialization: The Approach from Social Anthropology (1968), ed P Mayer
9. Witchcraft Confessions and Accusations (1970), ed M Douglas
10. Social Anthropology and Language (1971), ed E Ardener
11. Rethinking Kinship and Marriage (1971), ed R Needham
12. Urban Ethnicity (1973), ed A Cohen

ASA Monographs 13-22 (Academic Press)

13. Social Anthropology and Medicine (1976), ed J B Loudon
14. Social Anthropology and Law (1977), ed I Hamnett
15. The Anthropology of the Body (1977), ed J Blacking
16. Regional Cults (1977), ed R P Werbner
17. Sex and Age as Principles of Social Differentiation (1978), ed J. La Fontaine
18. Social and Ecological Systems (1979), ed P C Burnham and R F Ellen
19. Social Anthropology of Work (1979), ed S Wallman
20. The Structure of Folk Models (1981), ed L Holy and L Stuchlik
21. Religious Organization and Religious Experience (1982), ed J Davis 22. Semantic Anthropology (1982), ed D Parkin
22. Semantic Anthropology (1982), ed. D. Parkin.

ASA Monographs 23- (Tavistock 23-26, Routledge 27-40)

23. Social Anthropology and Development Policy (1985), ed R Grillo and A Rew
24. Reason and Morality (1985), ed J Overing
25. Anthropology at Home (1986), ed A Jackson
26. Migrants, Workers, and the Social Order (1987), ed J S Eades
27. History and Ethnicity (1989), ed E Tonkin, M McDonald and M Chapman
28. Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx: Paradox and Change in the Life Course (1990), ed P Spencer
29. Anthropology and Autobiography (1992), ed. J Okely and H Callaway
30. Contemporary Futures: Perspectives from Social Anthropology (1992) ed. S Wallman
31. Socialism: Ideals, ideologies and local practice (1993) ed. C M Hann
32. Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology (1993) ed. K Milton
33. Questions of Consciousness (1995) eds. AP Cohen and N Rapport
34. After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (1997) eds. A. James, A. Dawson and J. Hockey
35. Ritual, Performance, Media (1997) ed. F. Hughes-Freeland
36. The Anthropology of Power (1999) Angela Cheater
37. An Anthropology of Indirect Communication (2001) eds J. Hendry and C.W. Watson
38. Elite Cultures (2002) eds Cris Shore and Steve Nugent
39. Participating in Development (2002) eds Paul Sillitoe, Johan Pottier and Alan Bicker
40. Human Rights in Global Perspective (2003) eds Richard A. Wilson and Jon P. Mitchell

ASA Monographs 41- (Berg)

41. The Qualities of Time (2004) eds Wendy James and David Mills
42. Locating the Field: Space, Place and Context in Anthropology (2006) eds Simon Michael Coleman and Peter Collins
43. Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice (2007) eds Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey and Peter Wade
44. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation (2007) eds Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold
45. Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives (forthcoming) ed Pnina Werbner

Research Methods in Social Anthropology (1-2 Academic Press, 3- Routledge)

1. Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct (1984), ed. R F Ellen
2. Research Practices in the Study of Kinship (1984), A Barnard and A Good
3. Observing the Economy (1989), J Altman and C. Gregory
4. Oral Tradition and the Verbal Arts (1992), R Finnegan
5. Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists (1993) M D Fischer
6. Key Debates in Anthropology (1996) ed. T. Ingold
7. An Anthropologist in the Field (1999) Joy Hendry
8. Reflexive Ethnography (1999) Charlotte Davies
9. 9. A Guide to Imagework (2004) I. Edgar

Those interested in submitting proposals for new volumes (either edited, or singly or jointly authored) in the research methods series should contact publications(AT)theasa.org.

ASA Decennial Conference Series (Routledge)

1. Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge (1995) ed. R. Fardon
2. Worlds Apart: Modernity through the Prism of the Local (1995) ed. D. Miller
3. Shifting Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge (1995) ed. M Strathern
4. The Pursuit of Certainty: Religious and Cultural Formations (1995) ed. W. James
5. The Future of Anthropological Knowledge (1996) ed. H. Moore

ASA Studies (Malaby Press)

1. Biosocial Anthropology (1975), ed R Fox
2. Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology (1975), ed M Bloch. (New paperback edition published by Tavistock, 1985.)
3. The Interpretation of Symbolism (1975), ed R Willis

ASA Essays (ISHI)

1. Transaction and Meaning (1976), ed B Kapferer
2. Text and Context (1976), ed R K Jain
3. Numerical Techniques (1981), ed J C Mitchell