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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
Ethnography in Social Science Practice explores ethnography’s increasing use across the social sciences, beyond its traditional bases in social anthropology and sociology. It explores the disciplinary roots of ethnographic research within social anthropology, and contextualizes it within both field...
The Nature and Development of Mathematics
Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Cognition, Learning and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
From an infant’s first grasp of quantity to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the human experience of number has intrigued researchers for centuries. Numeracy and mathematics have played fundamental roles in the development of societies and civilisations, and yet there is an essential mystery to...
The Tapestry of Culture
An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The most exciting thing about anthropology is that it enables the student to become acquainted with people of different cultures. The Tapestry of Culture provides the student with the basic concepts necessary to understand these different cultures while showing that cultural variations occur within...
Behold the Black Caiman
A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
In 2004, one of the world’s last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ bulldozers. Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire’s intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo...
Human Nature as Capacity
Transcending Discourse and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring “the human” to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central...
Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health
The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Rendering the suffering of the marginalized visible has been an important aspect of feminist sociological studies of health, illness and medicine, with the subjective experience of those without access to institutional power being at the forefront of the research. This volume analyzes the links between...
by Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
FRANZ BOAS (1858-1942) has long been considered the father of modern American anthropology. He introduced the relativistic, culture-centered principles and methods of investigation that continue to dominate the field today. By attempting to fuse anthropology with political and social activism, he...
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 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths' is an anthropological work on the origins and progress of fiction. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia....
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 1885 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Cumberland Sound and its Eskimos' is an anthropological work on the Inuit people native to northern Canada. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Westphalia....
Practicing Islam
Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in...
Human No More
Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities.
Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional anthropological conception of place-based ethnography....
Knowing Differently
The Challenge of the Indigenous
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This book offers a bold and illuminating account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities from across continents, through their distinctive understanding of concepts such as space, time, joy, pain, life, and death. It demonstrates how this different mode of ‘knowing’...
by Michael D. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
A village in Sierra Leone. A refugee trail over the Pyrenees in French Catalonia. A historic copper mine in Sweden. The Shuf mountains in Lebanon. The Swiss Alps. The heart of the West African diaspora in southeast London. The anthropologist Michael Jackson makes his sojourns to each of these far-flung...
Interdisciplinarity
Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexity of problems such as climate change or the social implications of biomedicine demand interdisciplinary efforts integrating both the social and natural...