Anthropology category: 10809 books
Urban Development
How South Africa tries to manage the issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 75Prozent, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (School of Governmental and Social Science), course: Seminar: Urban Anthropology, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: [...] The paper...
by Gary P. Ferraro, Elizabeth K. Briody
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Now in its eighth edition, The Cultural Dimension of Global Business continues to provide an essential foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business and global business on culture. The highly experienced authors demonstrate how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology...
Ecology, Economy
Quest for a Socially Informed Connection
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ecology, Economy is an elaborate argument to establish society as central in policy-making for holistic development. The book presents cases of the adverse effects of resource utilisation—water, metals, power, land—on Adivasi communities in particular. It presents an overview of the paradoxes inherent...
by Richard G. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
A bold new theory on what sparked the "big bang" of human culture
The abrupt emergence of human culture over a stunningly short period continues to be one of the great enigmas of human evolution. This compelling book introduces a bold new theory on this unsolved mystery. Author Richard...
Designing Human Practices
An Experiment with Synthetic Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center—a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of...
Troubling Natural Categories
Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Where do our conventional understandings of health, illness, and the body stem from? What makes them authoritative? How are the boundaries set around these areas of life unsettled in the changing historical and political contexts of science, technology, and health care delivery? These questions are at...
Digital Materialities
Design and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material environments?...
Women's Place in the Andes
Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In Women’s Place in the Andes Florence E. Babb draws on four decades of anthropological research to reexamine the complex interworkings of gender, race, and indigeneity in Peru and beyond. She deftly interweaves five new analytical chapters with six of her previously published works that exemplify...
People and Nature
An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world.
Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a multi-disciplinary focus that...
Adventures in Aidland
The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists...
Anthropology and Development
Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development...
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Everyday practice of religion is complex in its nature, ambivalent and at times contradictory. The task of an anthropology of religious practice is therefore precisely to see how people navigate and make sense of that complexity, and what the significance of religious beliefs and practices in a given...
by Edward Burnett Tylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Use of the term "culture" as an expression of the full range of learned human behavior patterns began with this classic two-volume work, first published in 1871. Edward B. Tylor, the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, declared that culture is "that complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
This is a translation from a Russian work published in 1958, one of the major works of a well-known and prolific writer. It deals with the origins of the small nations and peoples of central Siberia and northeastern Asia. Many guesses have been made about these peoples but most have not been substantiated,...