Anthropology category: 10809 books

Cover of Art, Anthropology and the Gift
by Dr Roger Sansi
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subjects through practice, theory and politics. Fully...
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The Anthropology of the Fetus

Biology, Culture, and Society

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology....
Cover of Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2019

Taking South Asia as its focus, this wide-ranging collection probes the general reluctance of the cultural anthropology to engage with contemporary visual art and artists, including painting, sculpture, performance art and installation. Through case studies engaged equally in anthropology and visual...
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Anthropology and Alterity

Responding to the Other

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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

Alterity or otherness is a central notion in cultural anthropology and philosophy, as well as in other disciplines. While anthropology, with its aim of understanding cultural difference, tends to take otherness as a fact, there have been vigorous attempts in contemporary philosophy, particularly in...
Cover of Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century
by Jack David Eller
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to psychological anthropology, covering both the early history and contemporary state of the field. Eller discusses the major themes, theories, figures and publications, and provides a detailed survey of the essential and enduring relationship between...
Cover of Horizons of Anthropology
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the volume's contributors include people who have shaped anthropology's future. As Gluckman says in his Preface, the contributions...
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Anthropology and Psychoanalysis

An Encounter Through Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

In Anthropology and Psychoanalysis the contributors, both practising anthropologists and psychoanalysts, explore in detail the interface between the two disciplines and locate this within the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. In particular, they deal with the distinctive reactions of...
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Culture Writing

Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World

by Tim Watson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and French empires collapsed and...
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Anthropology in the Public Arena

Historical and Contemporary Contexts

by Jeremy MacClancy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

This articulate and authoritative survey of both the popular and academic trends in anthropology demonstrates the broad relevance of anthropological knowledge and argues for a more inclusive conception of the discipline that engages the public imagination. Demonstrates the evolving social contexts...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012

The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizations Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizations Details how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropology’s key concept of culture, inspiring...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe offers a survey of contemporary Europeanist anthropology and European ethnology, and a guide to emerging trends in this geographical field of research. Providing a synthesis of the different traditions and contemporary approaches, the book is both thematic...
Cover of Anthropology of Organizations
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

The 1980s and 1990s have been a time of change for organizations, with a preoccupation for changing `organizational culture', a concept attributed to anthropology. These changes have been accompanied by questions about different styles of organizing. In both public and private sector organizations...
Cover of Anthropology of Infectious Disease
by Merrill Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016

This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011

A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Provides an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Written by leading international scholars in medical...
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