Anthropology category: 10809 books
Thinking Home
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the individual...
Investigating Culture
An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
In its new Second Edition, the innovative and ever-popular Investigating Culture has been updated and revised to incorporate new teacher and student feedback. Carol Delaney and Deborah Kaspin provide an expanded introduction to cultural anthropology that is even more accessible to students.
Revised...
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Half-Blood Indian' is an anthropometric study on the mixing of races in North America. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia. Even though...
Un/common Cultures
Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces...
Global Inequality
Anthropological Insights
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Inequality is currently gaining considerable attention in academic, policy, and media circles. From Thomas Piketty to Robert Putnam, there is no shortage of economic, sociological, or political analyses. But what does anthropology, with its focus on the qualitative character of relationships between...
by Jack Goody
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, subjects that have long been a touchstone in anthropological thinking. Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume brings...
The Mirror of the Medieval
An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the “Middle Ages” has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book...
Shakespeare's Big Men
Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Shakespeare’s Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies – Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus – through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Generative anthropology’s theory of the origins of human society explains the social...
The Reinvention of Primitive Society
Transformations of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change, so the image of primitive society must be adjusted.
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Book Review: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
A brief history of humankind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
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As its name suggests, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind seeks to trace the history of Homo Sapiens from its earliest evolution, when it was...
The Aid Effect
Giving and Governing in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships?
The Aid Effect demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid,...
Leisure and Death
An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing,...
In Search of the Primitive
A Critique of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature...