Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Roy Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one.
Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises...
Process and Pattern in Culture
Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater sense of unity or to impose upon the contributors...
by Jeffrey A. Becker, Kitty Wheater
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Claude Lévi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of what is known today as ‘French theory,’...
Deleuzian Intersections
Science, Technology, Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as the...
by Claude Levi-Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a...
The Trouble with Community
Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption, of much social science, has been that it is in communities -- and to communities -- that human individuals, as social and cultural beings, belong. Communities are said to embody that interactive environment from which...
Transcendent Individual
Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively 'write', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology...
Blood Will Out
Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood.
An interdisciplinary study that unites the work of noted historians and anthropologists
Incorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship...
Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence
How Violent Death Is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Every year, there are over 1.6 million violent deaths worldwide, making violence one of the leading public health issues of our time. And with the 20th century just behind us, it's hard to forget that 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly through conflict. This collection of engaging...
The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth
Dental Morphology and Its Variation in Recent and Fossil Homo sapien
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
All humans share certain components of tooth structure, but show variation in size and morphology around this shared pattern. This book presents a worldwide synthesis of the global variation in tooth morphology in recent populations. Research has advanced on many fronts since the publication of the...
by Ian Jarvie
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
On the basis of empirical studies, this book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book may be read as a form of scholarly "edgework," resisting institutional divisions and conceptual routines in the interest of exploring...
Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species
An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human. This book features reflections on mythical thoughtand its logic and contrasts it to the Western conception of man as expressed in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth...
Digital Ethnography
Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to go beyond absorbing facts, computer-based storytelling allows for immersion in the experience of another culture. A guide for anyone in the social sciences...