Anthropology category: 10809 books
Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology
Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
What is a human being? Philosophical anthropology has approached this question with unusual sophistication, experimentalism, and subtlety. This volume explores the philosophical anthropologies of Scheler, Gehlen, Plessner, and Blumenberg in terms of their relevance to contemporary theories of nature, naturalism, organic life, and human affairs.
by Larry Gross
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
One of the central figures in the development of the study of visual communication, Sol Worth (1922-1977) was a filmmaker and painter before he turned to academic pursuits. He began with the question of how film could be understood and studied as medium of communication, and from there, he moved on to...
Marxism and Anthropology
The History of a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book examines the uses made of anthropology by Marx and Engels, and the uses made of Marxism by anthropologists. Looking at the writings of Marx and Engels on primitive societies, the book evaluates their views in the light of present knowledge and draws attention to inconsistencies in their...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings.
Explores theoretical and applied approaches to cultural practice in a diverse...
Fortune and the Cursed
The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the ‘race against...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring...
The House of Commons
An Anthropology of MPs at Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The House of Commons is one of Britain's mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world's most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary democracy.
Examining the work of Members...
Culture Crisis
Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Written by Australia’s leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government’s intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference...
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Methods of Ethnology' is a work on the techniques of anthropology. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though Boas had a passion...
The Anthropology of Sport
Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft,...
Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe
Bridging Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state...
How Forests Think
Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of...
Truth in Motion
The Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Embarking on an ethnographic journey to the inner barrios of Havana among practitioners of Ifá, a prestigious Afro-Cuban tradition of divination, Truth in Motion reevaluates Western ideas about truth in light of the practices and ideas of a wildly different, and highly respected, model. Acutely focusing...
The Anthropology of Western Religions
Ideas, Organizations, and Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The world’s “great” religions depend on traditions of serious scholarship, dedicated to preserving their key texts but also to understanding them and, therefore, to debating what understanding itself is and how best to do it. They also have important public missions of many kinds, and their...