Anthropology category: 10809 books
by John Steckley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted in the creation and perpetuation of a number of "White Lies." These are stories that have been developed over long periods of time, reproduced...
Ritual and Belief
Readings in the Anthropology of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author,...
Art and Agency
An Anthropological Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1998
Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view,...
The Nation's Tortured Body
Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence...
Empirical Futures
Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique...
Clio/Anthropos
Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been—a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the methodologies of anthropologists to explain inequalities of power, problems of voicelessness, and conceptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The fifth edition of this bestselling reader builds a strong foundation in both classical and contemporary theory, with a sharpened focus on gender and anthropology, and the anthropology of new media and technology. Short introductions and key terms accompany every reading, and light annotations have...
Love in Modern Japan
Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent anthropological...
by Therese Shea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Anthropologists, scientists who study humans and their ways of life, are continually finding and interpreting artifacts left by our earliest ancestors. They have helped us understand our origins as well as the intriguing cultures that developed as humans spread across Earth. This volume is a concise...
Death, Mourning, and Burial
A Cross-Cultural Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism
Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second...
The Anthropology of Postindustrialism
Ethnographies of Disconnection
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism affect places and people in peripheral regions and de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of...
Hybrids of Modernity
Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves...
Anthropologists in Arms
The Ethics of Military Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Anthropologists in Arms looks at the moral and ethical debates surrounding the recent development of 'military anthropology'—particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lucas traces the troubled history of social scientists collaborating with...