Anthropology category: 10809 books
Making Homes
Ethnography and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches...
The Violence of Care
Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Winner, 2017 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology
Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology
Every year in the U.S., thousands of women and hundreds...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification provides a comprehensive and up-to-date perspective on human identification methods in forensic anthropology. Divided into four distinct sections, the chapters will reflect recent advances in human skeletal identification, including statistical...
Anthropology
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry.
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Between Matter and Method
Encounters In Anthropology and Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Building on the lively exchange between anthropology and art that has emerged in recent years, Between Matter and Method makes a bold and creative contribution to this rapidly growing field. Taking an expansive approach to the arts, it finds commonalities in approaches that engage with visual artifacts,...
Assisted Dying
An Ethnographic Murder Mystery on Florida's Gold Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Assisted Dying is an ethnographically-based murder mystery that uses the unexplained deaths of elderly people on Florida's Gold Coast as a way of examining American cultural values. Diversity, immigration and the American Dream, aging, retirement, death, and dying are just some of the issues that...
by Ronald Niezen
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
In this powerful, timely study Ronald Niezen examines the processes by which cultural concepts are conceived and collective rights are defended in international law. Niezen argues that cultivating support on behalf of those experiencing human rights violations often calls for strategic representations...
Four Lectures on Ethics
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field—Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane—to discuss, via lectures...
Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over...
A Coincidence of Desires
Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention...
Anthropology of Nature
Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities...
by Jo Aiken, Russell W. Belk, Arundhati Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book offers keen insight and useful lessons underscoring the value of practice to theory. Conceived by two anthropologists who lead consulting practices, McCabe and Briody selected contributors to explore how cultural change happens in a variety of consumer and organizational contexts. The 12...
The Sonic Persona
An Anthropology of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound since the 19th century in the natural sciences, the engineering sciences, and in media theory, confronting them with contemporary artistic practices, with experimental critique, and with...