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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
This comprehensive anthology offers over 40 readings that are critical to the understanding of anthropological theory and the development of anthropology as an academic discipline. The fourth edition maintains a strong focus on the "four-field" roots of the discipline in North America but has been reorganized...
by Bronislaw Malinowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Bronislaw Malinowski’s pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is ‘to grasp the native’s point...
Early Inuit Studies
Themes and Transitions, 1850s-1980s
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual historyof Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and...
Anthropology and Beauty
From Aesthetics to Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Organised around the theme of beauty, this innovative collection offers insight into the development of anthropological thinking on art, aesthetics and creativity in recent years. The volume incorporates current work on perception and generative processes, and seeks to move beyond a purely aesthetic...
The Sound of Navajo Country
Music, Language, and Diné Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections...
Ethnographies of Waiting
Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty.
Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society....
by Rosie Cox, Victor Buchli
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of 'home'. It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer people.
Each of the book's six sections focuses on a different room or space inside the home. The...
Suicide and Agency
Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, Siberia,...
Spirits and Trance in Brazil
An Anthropology of Religious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Bettina E. Schmidt explores experiences usually labelled as spirit possession, a highly contested and challenged term, using extensive ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and home to a range of religions which practice spirit possession. The book is enriched by...
Wording the World
Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das’s work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of responsibility....
Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality
The Legacy of Westermarck
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book highlights the recent re-emergence of Edward Westermarck's work in modern approaches to morality and altruism, examining his importance as one of the founding fathers of anthropology and as a moral relativist, who identified our moral feelings with biologically-evolved retributive emotions.
Questioning...
by Michael Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
As increasing numbers of social anthropologists use a computer for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows, Computer Applications in Social Anthropology covers research activities shared by all social anthropologists and introduces new methods for organizing and interpreting...
The Anthropology of Sibling Relations
Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Drawing on international case studies, the contributors extrapolate a systematization of the ways in which siblingship is conceived on the basis of shared parentage, shared childhoods, and reciprocal care. They explore what makes these relations worth maintaining and how they contribute to community processes and to material and emotional survival.
The Anthropology of Childhood
Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this book sets out to answer these questions, and argues that our common understandings about children are narrowly culture-bound....