Anthropology category: 10809 books
Conservative Islam
A Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the perspective of traditional cultural anthropology. Gender issues, the headscarf and veiling, alcohol and pork prohibition, the taboo on satirizing religious...
by Andrew Strathern, Professor Pamela J. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between “language in particular” and “culture in general” by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on...
Hard Evidence
Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
An essential supplement to a forensic anthropology text, this reader provides case studies that demonstrate innovative approaches and practical experiences in the field. The book provides both introductory and advanced students with a strong sense of the cases that forensic anthropologists become...
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry
An Historical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
In 2000, the world of anthropology was rocked by a high-profile debate over the fieldwork performed by two prominent anthropologists, Napoleon Chagnon and James V. Neel, among the Yanamamo tribe of South America. The controversy was fueled by the publication of Patrick Tierney's incendiary Darkness...
Anthropology in the flesh - Implikationen der kognitiven Metaphertheorie von George Lakoff und Mark Johnson für die Ethnologie
Implikationen der kognitiven Metaphertheorie von George Lakoff und Mark Johnson für die Ethnologie
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,7, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Ethnologie), 109 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Abstract Jeder kennt die suggestive und evokative Kraft, die Metaphern in einem Dialog...
by Anonymous
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Literature Review from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of Coimbra (Departamento de Ciências da Vida), course: Cultura e Sociedade: Temas Contemporâneos em Antropologia, language: Portugues, abstract: No artigo com o título 'Theory in Anthropology...
Noble Savages
My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME
When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savages,” so-called primitive...
An Anthropology of War
Views from the Frontline
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - have...
Anthropology of the Performing Arts
Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry,...
Imaginary Ethnographies
Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture"—one that makes the abstract particular and local,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants.
Focusing on the body and...
Visualizing Theory
Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Review between 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves....
The Drug Company Next Door
Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
"This fascinating and most timely critical
medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of
contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and
significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human
social life everywhere, and...