W Penn Handwerker: 3 books
The Origin of Cultures
How Individual Choices Make Cultures Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What makes a 17-year-old girl decide to wrap a bomb around her body, walk into a supermarket, and detonate it, killing herself and an 18-year old girl shopping there? In this provocative and important book, renowned anthropologist W. Penn Handwerker shows that individual choices, from the fatal to...
Our Story
How Cultures Shaped People to Get Things Done
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The story of human evolution, or Our Story, is about the development and refinement of cultures. Individuals cannot do things on their own, this book argues; their choices are driven by heuristics, biases, illogical preferences, and irrational assumptions about the nature of reality. So how did humanity...
Quick Ethnography
A Guide to Rapid Multi-Method Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2001
Quick Ethnography (QE) is an easy-to-read guide to the rapid collection of high quality ethnographic data for use in research, policy analysis, and decision-making. It addresses the needs of social scientists grappling with complex cultural social interactions and cultural change occurring in communities...