Anthropology category: 10809 books
Forjando Patria
Pro-Nacionalismo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Often considered the father of anthropological studies in Mexico, Manuel Gamio originally published Forjando Patria in 1916. This groundbreaking manifesto for a national anthropology of Mexico summarizes the key issues in the development of anthropology as an academic discipline and the establishment...
Living Language
An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Revised and updated, the 2nd Edition of Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology presents an accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology.
Presents a highly...
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence
Global Responses, Local Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, social work, and medical fields by...
Phenomenology in Anthropology
A Sense of Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly...
by E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Social Anthropology explains and illustrates the methods of modern anthropology, tracing its development from pre-nineteenth-century philosophical speculations and the empirical work of explorers, missionaries and colonial servants, up to the second half of the twentieth century.
First published in 1951.
Beyond the Bones
Engaging with Disparate Datasets
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Interdisciplinary research is a rewarding enterprise, but there are inherent challenges, especially in current anthropological study. Anthropologists investigate questions concerning health, disease, and the life course in past and contemporary societies, necessitating interdisciplinary collaboration....
Anthropology's World
Life in a Twenty-First-Century Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.
Raising fundamental questions such as 'What is anthropology really about?', 'How does the public understand, or...
by S.C. Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The first section of the book deals with the history of the relationship of classical studies and anthropology. In the second section the more material aspects of ancient Greek life are considered and the author relates the economic history of the period to new approaches in archaeology and economic...
Anthropology as Ethics
Nondualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Anthropology as Ethics is concerned with rethinking anthropology by rethinking the nature of reality. It develops the ontological implications of a defining thesis of the Manchester School: that all social orders exhibit basically conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental...
Other Cultures
Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Other Cultures provides a lucid introduction to social anthropology. The author devotes the first part of the book to a consideration of what social anthropology is and seeks to do, what areas it covers, and the methods of investigation employed by social anthropologists. The second part discusses...
Mirror for Man
The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
While the world has undoubtedly been shrinking, at the same time it has grown more complex. The likelihood of culture clashes leading to outright conflict is high, perhaps higher than ever. As Andrea L. Smith convincingly argues in her new introduction to this classic work, certain questions are as...
Social Anthropology
An Alternative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, it draws on material which evokes current problems of policy and administration in the Third World....
The Ethics of Anthropology and Amerindian Research
Reporting on Environmental Degradation and Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The decision to publish scholarly findings bearing on the question of Amerindian environmental degradation, warfare, and/or violence is one that weighs heavily on anthropologists. This burden stems from the fact that documentation of this may render descendant communities vulnerable to a host of predatory...
Anthropology and the Individual
A Material Culture Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Anthropology is usually associated with the study of society, but the anthropologist must also understand people as individuals. This highly original study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives...