Anthropology category: 10809 books
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange
A Financial History of Victorian Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian...
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation, the growing isolation of elders,...
by Sarthak Sengupta
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The current treatise presents a collection of sixteen articles by eminent social scientists to acquaint booklovers with contemporary anthropological research on ethnic groups living in diverse habitat of North East India. Under one cover, the present volume features with abundance of materials and...
An Anthropology of Absence
Materializations of Transcendence and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or...
by David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
How is knowledge produced and used in cyberspace? David Hakken - a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies - approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, drawing on critical theory from anthropology, philosophy and informatics (computer science)...
Other Cultures
Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The first part of this book considers what kind of study social anthropology is, the types of questions social anthropologists ask and how they go about obtaining the answers. The second part discusses the more important fields in which social anthropologists have advanced our knowledge of other cultures:...
Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The edited collection brings together social and biological anthropology scholars, biologists, and geneticists to examine the interface between Genetic Admixture, Identity and Health, directly contributing to an emerging field of 'bio-cultural anthropology.
Corpus
An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of...
Magic's Reason
An Anthropology of Analogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
In Magic’s Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and...
Human Origins
Contributions from Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent...
The Anthropology of Religious Charisma
Ecstasies and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
According to Max Weber, charisma is opposed to bureaucratic order. This collection reveals the limits of that formula. The contributors show how charisma is a part of cultural frameworks while retaining its ecstatic character among American and Italian Catholics, Syrian Sufis, Taiwanese Buddhists, Hassidic Jews, and Amazonian shamans, among others.
by Caroline Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
When it appeared in 1983, Caroline Humphrey's Karl Marx Collective was the first detailed study of the Soviet collective farm system. Through careful ethnographic work on two collective farms operated in Buryat communities in Siberia, the author presented an absorbing--if dispiriting--account of the...
by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this title, first published in 1984, the author examines the social and political forces surrounding the practice of anthropology at different periods in the history of Mexico since 1917. She does this by analysing and tracing the development of competing anthropological perspectives, from ethnographic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The original work, in Russian, appeared in 1947 and is still regarded as an important contribution to knowledge of the early history of the Eskimo. This translation makes available in English the results of archaeological research in a significant area, the extreme northeast of continental Asia, and...