Anthropology category: 10809 books
Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity
Small Time Agents in a Global Arena
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
In Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians present case studies that focus on the scope and impact of Scandinavian colonial expansion in the North, Africa,...
The Animal Inside
Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Much has been written about animals in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new turn, offering an examination of the 'animal question' from a more fundamental, philosophical-anthropological perspective. The contributors in this important volume focus on how the...
by Julie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation’s sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerizes dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. In Paper Tangos, Julie Taylor—a classically trained dancer and anthropologist—examines...
India and Its Visual Cultures
Community, Class and Gender in a Symbolic Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
India and Its Visual Cultures is a comprehensive mapping and analysis of contemporary cultural artefacts and visual cultures through different approaches—iconographic, social, political, religious and so on. This book covers various media and their histories by studying visual representational systems,...
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities
Dancing on Empire's Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Indian Classical Dance and the Making of Postcolonial National Identities explores what happens when a national-cultural production is reproduced outside the immediate social, political and cultural context of its origin.
Whereas most previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance in...
Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees
State, Market, and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been characterized as a quintessential example of...
The Interview
An Ethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
What are new interview methods and practices in our new 'interview society' and how do they relate to traditional social science research? This volume interrogates the interview as understood, used - and under-used - by anthropologists. It puts the interview itself in the hotseat by exploring the...
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions...
Gods of the Upper Air
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
**“Elegant and kaleidoscopic . . . This looks to be the perfect moment for King’s resolutely humane book.”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“Captivating.”
—NPR.org
From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the...
Biological Relatives
IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide. In Biological Relatives, Sarah Franklin explores how the normalization of IVF has changed...
Virtual War and Magical Death
Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as Afghanistan,...
Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology
Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Edited by Ay,se K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi, Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology focuses on the social and economic conditions that impact on every aspect of an individual's life cycle. This edited collection showcases a variety of approaches to the study of the role of the social and...
I Am Dynamite
An Alternative Anthropology of Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the...
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insights...