Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Anna Bellisari
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern. The United States of America currently has the highest rates of obesity among developed countries, with an alarming rise in prevalence...
The Trouble with Human Nature
Health, Conflict, and Difference in Biocultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The Trouble with Human Nature brings together biological and cross-cultural evidence to critically examine common preconceptions and challenge popular assumptions about human nature. It sets out to counter genetic and evolutionary myths about human variation and behavior, drawing on both biological...
Measuring the Master Race
Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans....
Instinct and Revelation
Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Instinct and Revelation revolves around the hypothesis that ritual behavior and imaginative awareness in early hominids may have helped to spawn the evolution of the human brain and human consciousness. Using an integral perspective comparable with systems theory, the book carefully interweaves fact...
by Harry Sanabria
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This wide-ranging introduction to the anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean offers broad coverage of culture and society in the region, taking into account historical developments as well as the roles of power and inequality. The chapters address key topics such as colonialism, globalization,...
by Alicia Meza
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2004
The aim of this book is to present a varied research within the four sub-fields of Anthropology: Archaeology, Ethnology, Linguistics and Biological Anthropology, as it was conceived by Frank Boaz. Perhaps my emphasis has been mostly in Archaeology, since I specialize in the Archaeology of Egypt and...
Aesop's Anthropology
A Multispecies Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Aesop’s Anthropology is a guide for thinking through the perplexing predicaments and encounters that arise as the line between human and nonhuman shifts in modern life. Recognizing that culture is not unique to humans, John Hartigan Jr. asks what we can learn about culture from other species. He...
Resonance
Beyond the Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork résumés in anthropology: Unni Wikan. In its twelve essays—four of which are brand new—Resonance covers encounters with transvestites in Oman, childbirth in Bhutan, poverty...
The Ground Between
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of the most basic concepts of the discipline—including...
The Limits of Meaning
Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Too often, anthropological accounts of ritual leave readers with the impression that everything goes smoothly, that rituals are "meaningful events." But what happens when rituals fail, or when they seem "meaningless"? Drawing on research in the anthropology of Christianity from...
by Neil Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: none, , language: English, abstract: Brazil has been struggling with the challenges of unemployment, job inequality, insufficient income from labor and poverty for the past three decades. Although...
The Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Anthropology of Organisations offers a critical overview of the work that for over sixty years anthropologists have been carrying out in and on organisations and of the contribution that this work has made to social theory at large. Moving beyond earlier preoccupations with ’culture’ and ’relationality’,...
Appetites and Identities
An Introduction to the Social Anthropology of Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Appetites and Identities is a clear, inviting and fascinating introduction to the social anthropology of western Europe. It covers food, migration, politics, urban and country life, magic, religion, sex and language in an accessible and straightforward fashion, introducing the student to aspects of...