Anthropology category: 10809 books
Engaged Anthropology
Politics beyond the Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Does anthropology have more to offer than just its texts? In this timely and remarkable book, Stuart Kirsch shows how anthropology can—and why it should—become more engaged with the problems of the world. Engaged Anthropology draws on the author’s experiences working with indigenous peoples...
Novel Approaches to Anthropology
Contributions to Literary Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This volume of interdisciplinary essays reflect current contributions to literary anthropology. Novel Approaches to Anthropology: Contributions to Literary Anthropology showcases the myriad ways that anthropologists bring their disciplinary perspectives, theories, concepts, and pedagogical strategies...
by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous...
The Anthropology of Catholicism
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Aimed at a wide audience of readers, The Anthropology of Catholicism is the first companion guide to this burgeoning field within the anthropology of Christianity. Bringing to light Catholicism’s long but comparatively ignored presence within the discipline of anthropology, the book introduces readers...
The Environment in Anthropology (Second Edition)
A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation...
Weaponizing Anthropology
Social Science in Service of the Militarized State
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military...
Design Anthropology
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Design is a key site of cultural production and change in contemporary society. Anthropologists have been involved in design projects for several decades but only recently a new field of inquiry has emerged which aims to integrate the strengths of design thinking and anthropological research.
This...
by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and...
Centralizing Fieldwork
Critical Perspectives from Primatology, Biological and Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Fieldwork is a central method of research throughout anthropology, a much-valued, much-vaunted mode of generating information. But its nature and process have been seriously understudied in biological anthropology and primatology. This book is the first ever comparative investigation, across primatology,...
Clifford Geertzs Interpretive Anthropology
Between Text, Experience and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Over the last decades Clifford Geertz’ interpretive anthropology has played an important role in the field of socio-cultural anthropology. The study presents the critical reception of his thoughts in Western countries and Polish anthropology. Interpretive anthropology is based on the category of...
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism
Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology is a broad survey of linguistic anthropology, featuring contributions from prominent scholars in the field. Each chapter presents a brief historical summary of research in the field and discusses topics and issues of current concern to people doing...
Fictionalizing Anthropology
Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline. In the 1980s postmodernist anthropologists began to explore the literary and reflective aspects of their work. Popularizing Anthropology advances that trend by looking at a key but previously marginalized genre...