Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Alan Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing...
Relative Values
Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors—a...
Design Anthropology
Object Cultures in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century.
Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success. Today the design...
Making
Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way...
Living Language
An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology.
A highly accessible introduction to the...
by Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and...
Environmental Anthropology
Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive...
by Serena Nanda, Richard L. Warms
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts students to skillfully explore and study today’s world. Readers will better understand social structures by examining themselves, their culture, and cultures from all over the globe. Serena Nanda and Richard...
Know It All Anthropology
The 50 Most Important Ideas in Anthropology, Each Explained in Under a Minute
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet?
These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on earth*. Know-It-All Anthropology* seeks...
by Brian Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined anthropology as the study of what it means to be a human being. Following in his footsteps Anthropology and the Human Subject provides a critical, comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of conceptions of the human subject within the Western...
Research Methods in Anthropology
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard’s unmistakable conversational style, this guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and...
They Lie, We Lie
Getting on with Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. This is necessary because there has been a polarization...
The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement
A Biocultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional cosmology. This collection of essays draws from work...