Anthropology category: 10809 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called “repatriation of anthropology” and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies. These interdisciplinary approaches have been further developed...
The Time at Darwin's Reef
Poetic Explorations in Anthropology and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2003
The Time at Darwin's Reef is primarily a book of storytelling through mixed genres—verse, prose, and painting. Brady's work is designed to draw out key dimensions of the poetics of anthropology and history embedded in creative writing—in the mix and on the margins of verse and prose, painting...
The Scope of Anthropology
Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature–culture debate to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications...
Rhythms of Writing
An Anthropology of Irish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This is the first anthropological study of writers, writing and contemporary literary culture. Drawing on the flourishing literary scene in Ireland as the basis for her research, Helena Wulff explores the social world of contemporary Irish writers, examining fiction, novels, short stories as well...
Coming of Age in Chicago
The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair’s focus on indigenous peoples. Participants included...
Ancestral Lines
The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind....
Tuhami
Portrait of a Moroccan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and...
Ethics in the Field
Contemporary Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and other social scientists to radically reconsider the nature, process, and outcomes of fieldwork: what should we be doing, how, for whom, and to what end? In this volume, practitioners...
Making and Growing
Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as artefacts...
by Alan Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press,...
Posthumanism
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were...
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The great anthropologist's classic treatise on race and culture. Discusses biological and cultural inheritance, the fallacy of racial, cultural or ethnic superiority, the scientific basis for human individuality, and much more. One of the most influential books of the century, now in a value-priced edition. Introduction by Ruth Bunzel.
The Serbian Folk Epic
It's Theology and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This is a thorough and well-documented study, examining the theology and anthropology of the Serbian folk epic. The book opens a new field in Slavic folklore and offers scholars material heretofore not readily available in English. The work sheds light also on the Serbian soul and culture.
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