Anthropology category: 10809 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range...
The Anthropology of Eastern 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...
by Susana Narotzky
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1997
Using an historical perspective, Narotzky highlights the interdependent nature of the contemporary world economy, and includes case studies of Western societies. She gives special emphasis to current issues such as the anthropology of work, the informal economy, and the cultures of industrialisation.
Time and the Work of Anthropology
Critical Essays 1971-1981
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing...
Religion in the Kitchen
Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological Association
Finalist,...
The Anthropology of Intentions
Language in a World of Others
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
How and to what extent do people take into account the intentions of others? Alessandro Duranti sets out to answer this question, showing that the role of intentions in human interaction is variable across cultures and contexts. Through careful analysis of data collected over three decades in US and...
Empires, Nations, and Natives
Anthropology and State-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Empires, Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst...
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo
A Study in Social Morphology
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo is one of the first books in anthropology to adopt a sociological approach to the analysis of a single society. Mauss links elements of anthropology and human geography, arguing that geographical factors should be considered in relation to a social context in all...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Providing a critical framework for the consideration of the relationship between modern social anthropology and linguistics, this volume covers topics such as classification, symbolism, and structuralism. The relevance of the works of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky is considered. There are two...
by Alphonso Lingis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
Alphonso Lingis is arguably the most intriguing American philosopher of the past fifty years—a scholar of transience, someone who has visited and revisited more than...
Possession
Jung's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The first edition of this illuminating study, addressed both to readers new to Jung and to those already familiar with his work, offered fresh insights into a fundamental concept of analytical psychology. This revised edition has been fully updated to reflect the publication of the DSM-5.
Craig...
Place and Spirit in Taiwan
Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Based on field-work in Taiwan, this book examines the ancient, indigenous religious cult of Tudi Gong both as a religio-social phenomenon and as an appropriate medium for exploring and analysing the social changes that have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan, and the people's strategic adaptations...
by Patricia L Sunderland, Rita M Denny
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research is the essential guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in consumer environments. Patricia Sunderland and Rita Denny argue that, while the recent explosion in the use of “ethnography” in the corporate world has provided unprecedented...