Anthropology category: 10809 books
Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author’s theoretical...
On the Road of the Winds
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth’s surface and encompasses many thousands of islands that are home to numerous human societies and cultures. Among these indigenous Oceanic cultures are the intrepid Polynesian double-hulled canoe navigators, the atoll dwellers of Micronesia, the statue...
Global Perspectives on Gender and Work
Readings and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2000
Central to all our lives, work affects our status in the state, the family, and the economy. This comprehensive reader examines the myriad ways in which work—whether it is well-paid, unpaid, or underpaid—profoundly influences our roles in both the public and private spheres. Jacqueline Goodman...
by Tim Youngs, Tim Youngs
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics, anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through a time-span from Ancient Greece...
Routledge Revivals: The Ethnography of Malinowski (1979)
The Trobriand Islands 1915-18
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Bronislaw Malinowski is one of the founding fathers of modern social anthropology and the innovator of the technique of prolonged and intensive fieldwork. His writings about the Trobriand Islands of Papua were in their time the most formative influence on the work of British social anthropologists...
by Robin Cohen, Olivia Sheringham
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another. This fascinating book shows how people from various societies...
The Pursuit of Certainty
Religious and Cultural Formulations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Although the world population faces movement, mixing and displacement on a larger scale than ever before, the result has not been a collapse of boundaries but an increase in the rise of new forms of ethnic, cultural and religious identity. Those based in the highly developed countries can extend global...
Songs of Seoul
An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style...
American Cultural Patterns
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
A fully revised edition of the seminal classic
This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns...
Ethnolinguistics and Cultural Concepts
Truth, Love, Hate and War
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
'Ethnolinguistics' is the study of how language relates to culture and ethnicity. This book offers an original approach to ethnolinguistics, discussing how abstract concepts such as truth, love, hate and war are expressed across cultures and ethnicities. James W. Underhill seeks to situate these key...
Borderlands
Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places...
Tazz’Unt
Ecology, Social Order and Ritual in the Tessawt Valley of the High Atlas of Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Tazzunt presents a group of Berbers (Imazighen), the Ait Arbaa, who live in the Tessawt Valley of the High Atlas of Morocco, eking out a meager existence from the eroded soil of their rugged environment, by harvesting turnips, millet and maize, and one cash crop of walnuts. They depend also on a simple...
Local Knowledge
Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume...
Changing Veils
Women and Modernisation in North Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In Yemen, where current poverty is combined with a rich cultural heritage, the distinctions between the traditional and the modern are particularly difficult.
First published in 1979, this is a study of social change as experienced and perceived by the women of San’a, the capital city of...