Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Angela Libal
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Welcome to the exciting world of forensic investigation—the science of solving crimes. This introduces the field of forensic anthropology, where scientists and criminal investigators use the human skeleton to solve some of the world's most mysterious and violent crimes. From the nineteenth-century...
An Anthropology of the Machine
Tokyo's Commuter Train Network
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine, Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyo’s commuter train network embodies the lived realities...
Anthropology Explored, Second Edition
The Best of Smithsonian AnthroNotes
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
This new edition offers a variety of clearly written and readily accessible articles from the Smithsonian’s highly acclaimed, award-winning publication AnthroNotes. Some of the world's leading anthropologists explore fundamental questions humans ask about themselves as individuals, as societies,...
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive...
Anthropology of Los Angeles
Place and Agency in an Urban Setting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...
Far Afield
French Anthropology between Science and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In Far Afield—brought to English-language...
Introducing Cultural Anthropology
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
What is the role of culture in human experience? This introductory cultural anthropology textbook helps readers explore and understand this crucial issue from a Christian perspective. The book covers standard cultural anthropology topics with special attention given to issues of concern to Christians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world.
Features the latest ethnographic research from...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism....
Anthropology and Climate Change
From Actions to Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The first edition of Anthropology and Climate Change (2009) pioneered the study of climate change through the lens of anthropology, covering the relation between human cultures and the environment from prehistoric times to the present. This second, heavily revised edition brings the material on this...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal both the challenges for and the potential of this...
Advertising and Anthropology
Ethnographic Practice and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Examining theory and practice, Advertising and Anthropology is a lively and important contribution to the study of organizational culture, consumption practices, marketing to consumers and the production of creativity in corporate settings. The chapters reflect the authors' extensive lived experienced...
Public Anthropology
Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Contemporary anthropology has changed drastically in the new millennium, expanding beyond the anachronistic study of "primitive" societies to confront the burning social, economic, and political challenges of the day. In the process, anthropologists often come face to face with issues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.