Anthropology category: 10809 books
An Anthropology of Robots and AI
Annihilation Anxiety and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book explores the making of robots in labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It examines the cultural ideas that go into the making of robots, and the role of fiction in co-constructing the technological practices of the robotic scientists. The book engages with debates in anthropological...
People Without Government
An Anthropology of Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Anarchy, as the absence of government, is neither chaos nor some impossible Utopian dream. In fact it is a very common form of political organisation and one that has characterised much of the human past. People Without Government describes briefly the anarchic political structures of a number of...
Our Common Denominator
Human Universals Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities...
Legacies, Logics, Logistics
Essays in the Anthropology of the Platform Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Legacies, Logics, Logistics brings together a set of essays, written both before and after the financial crisis of 2007–08, by eminent Africanist and economic anthropologist Jane I. Guyer. Each was written initially for a conference on a defined theme. When they are brought together and interpreted...
States of Imagination
Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on...
Body Studies
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for...
Impulse to Act
A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing...
Anthropological Intelligence
The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of their war-related work was extraordinary. They helped gather military intelligence, pinpointed possible...
From Sappho to De Sade (Routledge Revivals)
Moments in the History of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The history of sexuality has been the subject of increased interest in recent years and more widely acknowledged importance in the interpretation of past mentalités. Yet historians have only recently begun to study sexual practices in any depth, establishing that sexuality is not a biological constant...
Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted...
Language, Culture, and Society
An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, international...
Chronicling Cultures
Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Some field sites have hosted anthropologists for as long as half a century. Chronicling Cultures collects articles from principals of many of the longest and best-known anthropology projects from four continents—the Kung, Harvard Chiapas Project, Gwembe Valley, Tzintzuntzan, and Navajo among others....