Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Maruska Svasek
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. *BR**BR*Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them, but also the process of production and its wider context. *BR**BR*Providing a critical overview of...
Disrupting Territories
Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
"Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of...
Values and Valuables
From the Sacred to the Symbolic
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be...
Commodities and Globalization
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2000
TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically...
Religions in Practice
An Approach to the Anthropology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Religions in Practice provides a comprehensive and primarily theme-based overview for students of the anthropology of religion. Whilst covering traditional topics such as magic, witchcraft, and spiritual healing, the book addresses key contemporary subjects including migration, transnationalism, nationalism,...
by Max Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This collection of essays addresses the inclusion and exclusion of peoples, populations and regions in an era of global economic and social integration. Although many publications have discussed the way in which globalization has changed the nature of boundaries, space and the movement of peoples,...
What the Bones Tell Us
An Anthropologist Examines the Evidence in an Attempt to Unravel Ancient Mysteries and Modern Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Jeffrey Schwartz, professor of physical anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, ranges from digs in the Negev Desert through Africa and Europe to the local coroner's office to explain how interpretations of the past are made. What...
The Anthropology of Infectious Disease
International Health Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Anthropological contributions to the study of infectious disease and to the study of actual infectious disease eradication programmes have rarely been collected in one volume. In the era of AIDS and the global resurgance of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria, there is widespread...
The Anthropology of Sustainability
Beyond Development and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim...
The Power of the Machine
Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges...
Dividends of Kinship
Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.
The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's...
Veiled Sentiments
Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of culture, community, and identity—so how do applied social scientists use complicated, fluid new ideas such as translocality and ethnoscape to solve pressing human problems? In this book, leading scholar/practitioners...
by L. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices.