Anthropology category: 10809 books
Before Social Anthropology
Essays on the History of British Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
World Anthropologies in Practice
Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well as differences of perspective to help...
Anthropology of Policy
Perspectives on Governance and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology.
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Into the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The waves of change sweeping the MENA compel social scientists and anthropologists in particular to move beyond local specificities and images of ‘untouched’ communities or Middle East exceptionalism to consider wider patterns of social and cultural change.... [The essays in this volume] reflect...
Coming of Age in Second Life
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services,...
Organisational Anthropology
Doing Ethnography in and Among Complex Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Organisational Anthropology is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic fieldwork in different types of complex organisations, focusing on the process of initiating contact, establishing rapport and gaining the trust of an organisation's members.*BR**BR*The thirteen contributors work from the premise...
by Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable, and accessible introduction to anthropological theory from antiquity to the present. A new section on twenty-first-century anthropological theory has been added, with more coverage...
Lifeworlds
Essays in Existential Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Michael Jackson’s Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking...
Culture, Power, Place
Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series...
Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching...
Anthropology and Archaeology
A Changing Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects.
This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthropology. It takes a broad historical approach, setting the...
A Passion for Difference
Essays in Anthropology and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality.
Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She...
Anthropology and Cryptozoology
Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However,...