Anthropology category: 10809 books
Northern Plainsmen
Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of that discipline to bear on a contemporary agrarian society and its historical development, rather than on peasant or tribal peoples; cultural ecology,...
Cultural Economy
Cultural Analysis and Commercial Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Phrases such as `corporate culture', `market culture' and the `knowledge economy', have now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. They are calls that have echoed through organizations and markets. Clearly something is happening to the ways markets and organizations are being represented...
Journeys Through Ethnography
Realistic Accounts Of Fieldwork
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Learning how to carry out research projects using participant observation and in-depth interviews has become a priority for scholars in a wide range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, education, social work, nursing, and psychology. This book, a collection of well-known fieldwork accounts...
Anthropology and Food Policy
Human Dimensions of Food Policy in Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy. They show how information gathered from fieldwork—especially at the individual, family, and community levels—can help professionals plan and assess policies.
Ethical Research with Sex Workers
Anthropological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
This volume is the result of the many years the authors have spent conducting ethnographic field research with sex workers, conversing with other researchers, and, perhaps most importantly, developing a deep sense of empathy for the sex worker participants in the research as well as the colleagues...
Flexible Citizenship
The Cultural Logics of Transnationality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Are nation-states being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy? Do global cultural forces herald a postnational millennium? Tying ethnography to structural analysis, Flexible...
The Ten-Thousand Year Fever
Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology,...
Climate Change and Social Inequality
The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward...
Foundations of Biosocial Health
Stigma and Illness Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The chapters in Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, drawn primarily from medical anthropology, highlight the diverse ways in which various stigmatized health conditions interact with social inequalities and stigma to form syndemics. The authors delineate multiple examples...
by Daniel E. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This text is intended for the sophomore level course in human variation/human biology taught in anthropology departments. It may also serve as a supplementary text in introductory physical anthropology courses.
In addition to covering the standard topics for the course, it features contemporary topics...
Higher Education, Globalization and Eduscapes
Towards a Critical Anthropology of a Global Knowledge Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book examines transnational scapes and flows of higher education: arguing that the educational and political vision of a national, regional and global knowledge society needs to be perspectivized beyond its ethnocentric conditions and meanings. Using eduscapes as its most important concept, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
There has been much discussion in recent years about the construction of theoretical models useful in the explanation of particular areas of social organization. This volume charts that discussion and its results and covers a wide ethnographic range from the Pacific Island of Truk through African pastoral societies, south-east Asia and Hong Kong, back to Polynesia.
First published in 1965.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This collection of translations from articles by Russian scholars continues the valuable contribution to Western knowledge of the anthropology of the North which is being made under the sponsorship of the Arctic Institute of North America. The subjects treated include: "The Ethnic Affiliation...
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic....