Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Paul Broca, Charles Carter Blake
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The Publishing Committee of the Anthropological Society have done me the honour to confide to me the task of editing Dr. Broca’s valuable little volume. This duty I have now fulfilled, and hope that the members of the Society and the general public will experience the same pleasure in reading the...
Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
A Systematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Anthropology, and by extension archaeology, has had a long-standing interest in evolution in one or several of its various guises. Pick up any lengthy treatise on humankind written in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the chances are good that the word evolution will appear somewhere...
The Anthropology of Protestantism
Faith and Crisis among Scottish Fishermen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of religion in modern industrial societies.
Synagogue Life
A Study in Symbolic Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Via a participant-observer approach, Synagogue Life analyzes the three essential dimensions of synagogue life: the houses of prayer, study, and assembly. In each Heilman documents the rich detail of the synagogue experience while articulating the social and cultural drama inherent in them. He illustrates...
by Stanley Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Innovative and often controversial, Barrett's study ranges over the entire scope of anthropological theory. It provides a fresh interpretation of the history of theory and mounts an alternative perspective, built around dialectics, that is eminently suitable to post-colonial anthropology.
He...
by Peter van der Veer
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the broad...
ExtrACTION
Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Examining the ways in which social anthropologists might gain from and contribute to, historical studies this volume contains papers on historical studies by anthropologists on 19th century Nupe, Yoruba and Benin and 17th century Cameroons in West Africa; on the succession in kingship in Buganda; and on the development of national politics in Albania.
First published in 1968.
Breastfeeding
New Anthropological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches unites sociocultural, biological, and archaeological anthropological scholarship to spark new conversations and research about breastfeeding. While breastfeeding has become the subject of intense debate in many settings, anthropological perspectives have...
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 1888 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Central Eskimo' was his first monograph and details his time spent on Baffin Island studying the Inuit people. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden,...
Unwrapping Japan
Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan. Yet it seems that the more that is written about Japan and Japanism – its culture, society, people – the more mysterious it becomes. As well as exploring issues relating to advertising, tourism, women, festivals...
Multi-Sited Ethnography
Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George...
Uncertainty and Possibility
New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.
This book offers new perspectives on the central...
The Allure of Capitalism
An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying “transnational” or “global” corporate management...