Anthropology category: 10809 books
Wayward Shamans
The Prehistory of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity’s first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of any production of history, and how cultural concepts enter as forcs of historical causation.
The road
An ethnography of (im)mobility, space, and cross-border infrastructures in the Balkans
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political...
Gendering Orientalism
Race, Femininity and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In contrast to most cultural histories of imperialism, which analyse Orientalist images of rather than by women, Gendering Orientalism focuses on the contributions of women themselves. Drawing on the little-known work of Henriette Browne, other `lost' women Orientlist artists and the literary works...
The Inbetweenness of Things
Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions – which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of...
Explaining Social Life
A Guide to Using Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This distinctive text makes social theory accessible to and usable by students. Whereas social theory is often seen as abstract, esoteric and separate from our understanding of the social world, here it is shown to be a flexible and practical resource for anyone wanting to explain social phenomena.
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Distortion and Love
An Anthropological Reading of the Art and Life of Stanley Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
In this ground-breaking book, a theory of ’distortion’ - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century painters and that art’s public reception. Devoted...
Chiefs, Scribes, and Ethnographers
Kuna Culture from Inside and Out
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Kuna of Panama, today one of the best known indigenous peoples of Latin America, moved over the course of the twentieth century from orality and isolation towards literacy and an active engagement with the nation and the world. Recognizing the fascination their culture has held for many outsiders,...
Syndemic Suffering
Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Wome
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
In a major contribution to the study of diabetes, this book is the first to analyze the disease through a syndemic framework. An innovative, mixed-methods study, Emily Mendenhall shows how adverse social conditions, such as poverty and oppressive relationships, disproportionately stress certain populations...
Beyond Indigeneity
Coca Growing and the Emergence of a New Middle Class in Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
In Bolivia, the discourse on indigenous peoples intensified in the last few decades, culminating in the election of Evo Morales as president in 2005. Indigenous people are portrayed by the Morales government as modest, communitarian, humble, poor, anticapitalist, and economically marginalized. In...
The Articulated Peasant
Household Economies In The Andes
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Based on Enrique Mayer’s 30 years of research in Peru, this collection of new and revised essays presents in one accessible volume Mayer’s most significant statements on Andean peasant economies from pre-colonial times to the present. The Articulated Peasant is therefore noteworthy as a sustained...
A House of One's Own
The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One’s Own explores these enduring questions as they unfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes. In a...
Arguing Sainthood
Modernity, Psychoanalysis, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1997
In Arguing Sainthood, Katherine Pratt Ewing examines Sufi religious meanings and practices in Pakistan and their relation to the Westernizing influences of modernity and the shaping of the postcolonial self. Using both anthropological fieldwork and psychoanalytic theory to critically reinterpret theories...
Culture, 1922
The Emergence of a Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Culture, 1922 traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across...