Anthropology category: 10809 books
Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes
Ritual Powers of Smith/Artisans in Tuareg Society and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book examines alleged “superhuman” powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth...
Medusa's Hair
An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through...
Anthropology of Dying
A Participant Observation with Dying Persons in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Mira Menzfeld explores dying persons’ experiences of their own dying processes. She reveals cultural specificities of pre-exital dying in contemporary Germany, paying special attention to how concepts of dying ‘(un)well’ are perceived and realized by dying persons. Her methodological focus centers...
by Madeline Bronsdon Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
"Rowan and her team show the rest of us working in museums that we have a responsibility to enable indigenous youth to have a more important role in museums and in the broader community.I highly recommend this refreshing and illuminating story to those who believe or need to be reminded that museums...
Travels with Frances Densmore
Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Over the first half of the twentieth century, scientist and scholar Frances Densmore (1867–1957) visited thirty-five Native American tribes, recorded more than twenty-five hundred songs, amassed hundreds of artifacts and Native-crafted objects, and transcribed information about Native cultures....
An Anthropology of Learning
On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding...
by Stephan Feuchtwang, Hans Steinmüller
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences. It enables readers to develop ways of putting the modern...
by Dessalegn Oulte
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: B+, , course: Anthropology of Development, language: English, abstract: Ethnicity is fundamental issue in human life as 90 percent the world's nations are composed of two or more ethnic groups. The action-reaction...
Anthropology in the Mining Industry
Community Relations after Bougainville's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2017
This book outlines how Rio Tinto—one of the world’s largest miners—redesigned and rebuilt relationships with communities after the rejection of the company during Bougainville’s Civil War. Glynn Cochrane recalls how he and colleagues utilized their training as social anthropologists to help...
Coffee and Community
Maya Farmers and Fair-Trade Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
We are told that simply by sipping our morning cup of organic, fair-trade coffee we are encouraging environmentally friendly agricultural methods, community development, fair prices, and shortened commodity chains. But what is the reality for producers, intermediaries, and consumers? This ethnographic...
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement...
Engaging Anthropological Theory
A Social and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This updated second edition of Mark Moberg's lively book offers a fresh look at the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the historical context of anthropological ideas and the contested nature of anthropology itself. Anthropological...
Media Worlds
Anthropology on New Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places...