Anthropology category: 10809 books
Anthropology and Mass Communication
Media and Myth in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications, cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies...
Pioneers of the Field
South Africa's Women Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the personal and intellectual histories of six remarkable women through the use of a rich cocktail of new...
Media and Ritual
Death, Community and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of media...
Collecting, Ordering, Governing
Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée...
by Gerald Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This detailed and comprehensive guide provides biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the nineteenth century to the present day. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought,...
As Wide as the World Is Wise
Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would this effort bring philosophers and anthropologists...
Unfinished
The Anthropology of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terrain of an anthropology of becoming. People's becomings trouble and exceed ways of knowing and acting, producing new possibilities for research, methodology,...
by James D. Faubion
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain...
Animism beyond the Soul
Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
How might we envision animism through the lens of the ‘anthropology of anthropology’? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists...
Reading Orientalism
Said and the Unsaid
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his 1978 book Orientalism. Said's seminal polemic analyzes novels,...
Ancestral Lines
The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces have brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to strongly inform their way of life. Their beautifully designed tapa...
The Ontological Turn
An Anthropological Exposition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first...
by Raymond Firth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1967, this book gives some of the fruits of the author's study of Tikopia ways of thought as the result of three field expeditions. Most Polynesians became Christians more than a century ago but Tikopia had a substantial pagan population until quite recent years. This book of essays...
Ethnic groups in Thailand - A study of minority groups within the Thai nation state involving ethnic Chinese, Muslims and Highland Peoples
A study of minority groups within the Thai nation state involving ethnic Chinese, Muslims and Highland Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1, University of Vienna (Calpoly Thai Study Program 2004), 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: I am writing this paper on the Thai nation state and its minorities as a student of political...