Anthropology category: 10809 books
Time and the Other
How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live...
by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando...
The Law of Kinship
Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many...
The Reinvention of Primitive Society
Transformations of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
The Invention of Primitive Society, Adam Kuper’s best selling critique of ideas about the origins of society and religion that have been much debated since Darwin, has been hugely influential in anthropology and post-colonial studies.
This topical new edition, entitled The Reinvention of...
Eating Culture
An Anthropological Guide to Food
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Humans have an appetite for food, and anthropology—as the study of human beings, their culture, and society—has an interest in the role of food. From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrates the important role...
From Savage to Negro
Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1998
Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine...
The Cave and the Cathedral
How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?
"Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat–burning...
Intertwined Lives
Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the...
The Anthropology of Turquoise
Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise—the color and the gem—to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape.
From the Sierra Nevada, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Bahamas to her home ground...
by Eliza McFeely
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A bold new study of the Zuni, of the first anthropologists who studied them, and of the effect of Zuni on America's sense of itself
The Zuni society existed for centuries before there was a United States, and it still exists in its desert pueblo in what is now New Mexico. In the late nineteenth...
Latinas Crossing Borders and Building Communities in Greater Washington
Applying Anthropology in Multicultural Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
After crossing several borders, Latina/o immigrants and their children meet challenges of globalization as they acclimate to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Facing different social and cultural barriers while adapting to this metropolis, most of them meet these challenges by building transnational...
Food Consumption in Global Perspective
Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Transforming Place in a Unified Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions...
The Origins of Cocaine
Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
In the 1960s, the governments of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia launched agricultural settlement programs in each country’s vast Amazonian frontier lowlands. Two decades later, these exact same zones had transformed into the centers of the illicit cocaine boom of the Americas. Drawing on concepts from...