Anthropology category: 10809 books
An Anthropology of Puzzles
The Role of Puzzles in the Origins and Evolution of Mind and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn...
Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers
Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter–gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter–gatherers, a way of life that characterized most of human history....
Culture as a System
How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content...
Anthropology of the Self
The Individual in Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'The author demonstrates an impressive command of a wide range of literature' American Ethnologist
Western society is individualised; we feel at ease talking about individuals and we study individual behaviour through psychology and psychoanalysis. Yet anthropology teaches us that an individual...
Who are 'We'?
Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Who do “we” anthropologists think “we” are? And how do forms and notions of collective disciplinary identity shape the way we think, write, and do anthropology? This volume explores how the anthropological “we” has been construed, transformed, and deployed across history and the global...
Human Adaptation
The Biosocial Background
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Underlying the anthropological study of humans is the principle that there is a reality to which a human must adapt for survival. Populations must adapt to the realities of the physical world and maintain a proper fit between their biological makeup and the pressures of the various niches of the world....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Anthropologists have been keenly aware of the tension between cultural relativism and absolute norms, and nowhere has this been more acute than with regards to moral values. Can we study the Other’s morality without applying our own normative judgments? How do social anthropologists keep both the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present. It introduces readers to the origins, context and continuing relevance of a fascinating and exciting kaleidoscope of ideas that have transformed the humanities...
Comparison in Anthropology
The Impossible Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these questions by exploring the many ways in which, from the nineteenth...
Introducing Anthropology of Religion
Culture to the Ultimate
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This clear and engaging guide introduces students to key areas of the field and shows how to apply an anthropological approach to the study of religion in the contemporary world. Written by an experienced teacher, it covers major traditional topics including definitions, theories and beliefs as well...
The Never-ending Feast
The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through...
Healing the Exposed Being
The Ngoma healing tradition in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This ethnography explores the Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa. ‘Bungoma’ is an active philosophical system and healing practice consisting of multiple strands, based on the notion that humans are intrinsically exposed to each other and that this is the...
by Ales Hrdlicka
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas.
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This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical,...