Anthropology category: 10809 books
Death of the Father
An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways that had major effects on the organization...
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Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today. In this collection of personal and revealing essays, he explores the nature of his anthropological work in relation to a broader public, serving as the foremost...
Spirits of Protestantism
Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing...
Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals)
A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed,...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
In February 2018, Sasha Newell, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Free University of Brussells, publishes an article that marks the changing of the guard. Newell aims to mesh affective theory and the new materialism with classic symbolic anthropology. The hybrid should overcome the weaknesses...
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine
Old Concepts, New Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Developments in health, science and technology have long provided fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with developments in the life sciences....
The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs
Rethinking the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice. It encapsulates a growing body of literature that has questioned the mandates, roles, and effectiveness of these organizations–and the critique of these critics. This volume seeks...
A World of Insecurity
Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of Insecurity outlines a new approach to the subject.*BR**BR*The contributors expose a contradiction at the heart of conventional accounts of what constitutes human security,...
The Bamboo Fire
Field Work with the New Guinea Wape
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Anthropology is primarily done in the field, unlike the laboratory oriented experimental sciences. Experimental sciences make their observations in constructed settings that permit variables influencing the outcome of the experiment to be known and controlled. In contrast, anthropology's object of...
Citizen Subject
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of Étienne Balibar’s career-long project to think the necessary and necessarily antagonistic...
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and...
Fredrik Barth
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth’s ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In an accessible style, Thomas Eriksen’s biographical study reveals the magic of ethnography to professional...
Designs on the Contemporary
Anthropological Tests
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John Dewey, among others, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis...
by William Mazzarella
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and...