Anthropology category: 10809 books
Applications of Anthropology
Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the demand for anthropological approaches, understandings and methodologies outside academic departments is shifting and changing. Through a series of fascinating case studies of anthropologists’ experiences of working with very diverse organizations...
An Anthropology of Landscape
The Extraordinary in the Ordinary
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous...
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Anthropologist Franz Boas was a stalwart fighter for human rights and against racism. He was passionately concerned about individual liberty, freedom of inquiry and speech, equality of opportunity, and the defeat of prejudice and chauvinism. His Anthropology and Modern Life shows how Boas uses science...
The Tapestry of Culture
An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology provides students and the interested public with a concise picture of the field of cultural anthropology today. From the first edition of Tapestry of Culture published in the early 1980s until now, anthropology has changed greatly,...
World Watching
Streetcorners and Newsbeats on a Journey through Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
This book reflects on the author’s distinguished scholarly career over half a century, linking personal biography to changes in the discipline of anthropology. Ulf Hannerz presents a number of important essays and a brand new chapter that allow readers to track developments in his own thinking...
by Neil Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, , language: English, abstract: This paper is organized as a history of the diverse elements of scholarship by which the field of research methodology in social anthropology has been developed. Ethnography,...
by Dr. S. Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1988
While Social Anthropology is growing in popularity as an academic subject there are few standard books on the subject. The existing books leave a wide gap in the knowledge of the student and the reader. This book seeks to fill in the gap and present a cohensive study of the subject of anthropology...
In the Company of Others
The Development of Anthropology in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In Israel, anthropologists have customarily worked in their “home”—in the company of the society that they are studying. In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel by Orit Abuhav details the gradual development of the field, which arrived in Israel in the early twentieth...
by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2004
Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way. Eriksen explains...
Is the study of Intercultural Communication Applied Anthropology?
A Case Study on Intercultural Training
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 75 Prozent, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (School of Governmental and Social Sciences), course: Seminar: Applied Anthropology, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As anthropologists...
Design + Anthropology
Converging Pathways in Anthropology and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book explores the evolution of two disciplines, design and anthropology, and their convergence within commercial and organizational arenas. Focusing on the transdisciplinary field of design anthropology, the chapters cover the global forces and conditions that facilitated its emergence, the people...
by Patricia Barker Lerch, Lisa J. Lefler, Raymond D. Fogelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002
An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium.
Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession...
Worldly Provincialism
German Anthropology in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology. Drawing on the most recent work on the history of the discipline, the contributors rethink the historical and cultural connections between German anthropology, colonialism, and race....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
What are the potential contributions of anthropology to the study of police? Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology, there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to bring to broader scholarship in police studies.
Including...