Anthropology category: 10809 books
Living with Strangers
Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse...
Meeting Once More
The Korean Side of Transnational Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
A great
mobilization began in South Korea in the 1990s: adult transnational adoptees
began to return to their birth country and meet for the first time with their
birth parents—sometimes in televised encounters which garnered high ratings. What makes the case of South Korea remarkable is the sheer
scale...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport.
This collected volume investigates what is at stake in boxing in the modern world...
Protecting Suburban America
Gentrification, Advocacy and the Historic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America.
Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urban studies, its unique approach combines a study of historic preservation with multi-sited...
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City
On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local...
The Ethnographic Self as Resource
Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
It is commonly acknowledged that anthropologists use personal experiences to inform their writing. However, it is often assumed that only fieldwork experiences are relevant and that the personal appears only in the form of self-reflexivity. This book takes a step beyond anthropology at home and auto-ethnography...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Researching the Military focuses on the experiences of researchers who study the military around the world.
It explores the historical, social, institutional and personal factors that frame research and scrutinize the way knowledge in this area impacts society and policy. More than merely analyzing...
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra
Five Musical Years in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
In this remarkable book, Steven Feld, pioneer of the anthropology of sound, listens to the vernacular cosmopolitanism of jazz players in Ghana. Some have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended the innovations of John Coltrane with local instruments and worldviews. Combining...
Picturing the Nation
Iconographies of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Picturing the Nation presents a visual history of modern India and explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume have illustrations, which have all been reproduced in full colour on art paper. The illustrated pages have also...
The Music of Multicultural America
Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer revival in New York, to Arab music in Detroit, to West Indian steelbands in Brooklyn, to Kathak...
It’s a Small World
International Deaf Spaces and Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
It’s a Small World explores the fascinating and, at times, controversial concept of DEAF-SAME (“I am deaf, you are deaf, and so we are the same”) and its influence on deaf spaces locally and globally. The editors and contributors focus on national and international encounters (e.g., conferences,...
Material Culture and Authenticity
Fake Branded Fashion in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this mirror?...
México Profundo
Reclaiming a Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life. For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products...