Anthropology category: 10809 books
Reconceptualizing The Peasantry
Anthropology In Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people...
The Spirit of Mourning
History, Memory and the Body
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular...
by Joel Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The phenomenal growth of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism around the world in recent decades has forced us to rethink what it means to be religious and what it means to be global. The success of these religious movements has revealed tensions and resonances between the public and the private, the...
Muslim Women in Britain
De-Mystifying the Muslimah
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Perceptions of Muslim women in Western society have been shaped by historical and sociological conditions such as colonialism, patriarchy and Orientalism. In Muslim Women in Britain, Sariya Contractor seeks to reinstate the Muslimah as a storyteller who tells her own story.
An exploration of...
The Anthropology of Elites
Power, Culture, and the Complexities of Distinction
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.
People of Substance
An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves ‘People of the Center. ’ Carlos David Londoño Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating to selfhood, social organization, livelihood,...
Adventures in Eating
Anthropological Experiences in Dining from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off, unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language, customs, and other cultural differences. However, like other travelers to unknown places, they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requirement:...
Light on the Path
The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history.
The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory...
by Paul Gosselin
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Sometimes a small change in the way we define a basic term can have major repercussions on the way we look at the world. What happens, for example, when you change the way you look at concepts such as “religion” or “myth”? How might this affect the way we look at forces shaping the modern...
Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition
An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book focuses on mechanisms of human adaptability. It integrates findings from ecology, physiology, social anthropology, and geography around a set of problems or constraints posed by human habitats.
by Ruth Benedict
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedict's student, colleague, and eventually her biographer, here has collected the bulk of Ruth Benedict's writings. This includes letters between these two seminal anthropologists,...
by Alma Gottlieb
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way...
Defending the Land
Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Suitable for both introductory anthropology and upper-division courses in cultural anthropology
The campaign of the Cree people to protect their forest culture from the impact of hydro-electric development in northern Quebec has been widely-documented. Few have heard in any detail about this...
Uncertain Times
Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, the contributors to Uncertain Times assert that traditional labor unions have been co-opted by neoliberal policies of corporate capital and have become service organizations rather than drivers of social movements. The current...