Anthropology category: 10809 books
Here Comes Everyone
Anthropology and World Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detachment. By taking a cultural anthropological approach, however, it is possible to engage with those involved in a more comprehensive and cogent way. It is possible to provide a deeper understanding...
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates...
Anthropology and Global History
From Tribes to the Modern World-System
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present—utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.
Carmack...
Mutuality
Anthropology's Changing Terms of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Why do people do social-cultural anthropology? Beyond professional career motivations, what values underpin anthropologists' commitments to lengthy training, fieldwork, writing, and publication? Mutuality explores the values that anthropologists bring from their wider social worlds, including the...
by Friedarike Santner
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
Diploma Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: very good, University of Vienna (Sociology/Anthropology), 100 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Already before studying social and cultural anthropology and political science, I was an...
Ethics in the Anthropology of Business
Explorations in Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Ethics in business is a major topic both in the social sciences and in business itself. Anthropologists, long attendant to the intersection of ethics and practice, are particularly well suited to offer vital insights on the subject.
This timely collection considers a range of ethical issues...
Anthropology in the City
Methodology and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
With half of humanity already living in towns and cities and that proportion expected to increase in the coming decades, society - both Western and non-Western - is fast becoming urban and even mega-urban. As such, research in urban settings is evidently timely and of great importance. Anthropology...
by Marc Abélès
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The French scholar Marc Abélès is one of the leading political and philosophical anthropologists of our time. He is perhaps the leading anthropologist writing on the state and globalization. Thinking beyond the State, a distillation of his work to date, is a superb introduction to his contributions...
Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology
Dialogue for Ethically Conscious Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
This revised second edition of Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology renews the challenge to anthropologists to engage in a dialogue concerning their commitment to professional ethical conduct. Containing a majority of new chapters, the authors redefine what it means to conduct anthropological...
The Anthropology of Ignorance
An Ethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. This volume argues that the concept of ignorance has largely been pursued as the opposite of knowledge or even its obverse. Though they cover wide empirical ground - from clients of a fertility treatment center...
Environmentalism
The View from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Located in a wide spectrum of current research and practice, from analyses of green ideology and imagery, enviromental law and policy, and local enviromental activism in the West to ethnographic studies of relationships between humans and their enviroments in hunter/gatherer societies, Enviromentalism:...
by Laura Engel
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 2,0, Leiden University (Faculty of Social Science), 80 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: With this thesis I will end my six years of study on the field of Cultural Anthropology. I started...
Taboo
Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Taboo looks at the ethnographer and sexuality in anthropological fieldwork and considers the many roles that sexuality plays in the anthropological production of knowledge and texts. How does the sexual identity that anthropologists have in their "home" society affect the kind of sexuality...
Connections
Brain, Mind and Culture in a Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural.
Recent popular interest in the brain...