Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Havelock Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Of criminals, actual or nominal, there are many kinds. It is necessary, first of all, to enumerate the chief varieties.
There is the political criminal. By this term is meant the victim of an attempt by a more or less despotic Government to preserve its own stability. The word “criminal”...
Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology
Genetics, Evolution, Variation
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Researchers have long had an interest in dental morphology as a genetic proxy to reconstruct population history. Much interest was fostered by the use of standard plaques and associated descriptions that comprise the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System, developed by Christy G. Turner,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Bone is the tissue most frequently recovered archaeologically and is the material most commonly studied by biological anthropologists, who are interested in how skeletons change shape during growth and across evolutionary time. This volume brings together a range of contemporary studies of bone growth...
Dreaming Culture
Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography" from college students...
Nonlinear Models for Archaeology and Anthropology
Continuing the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The dominant social theory used by archaeologists has tended to focus on either small scale agency or large-scale cultural patterns and processes of change. The authors of this volume argue that archaeologists should use nonlinear models to more accurately model the connections between scales of analysis,...
Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques
Macaca Mulatta of Cayo Santiago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Foreword by Phillip V. Tobias
The introduction of rhesus macaques to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the subsequent development of the CPRC for biomedical research, continues its long history of stimulating studies in physical anthropology. The CPRC monkey colonies, and the precise...
With the Saraguros
The Blended Life in a Transnational World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Highlighting globalization's effects on humanity through the lens of Ecuador's indigenous Saraguro people, With the Saraguros marks a compelling departure from conventional approaches to ethnography. While documenting and exploring the social patterns among the Saraguro, with an emphasis on the role...
Time Blind
Problems in Perceiving Other Temporalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book explores how modern concepts of time constrain our understanding of temporal diversity. Time is a necessary and pervasive dimension of scholarship, yet rarely have the cultural assumptions about time been explored. This book looks at how anthropology--a discipline known for the study of...
America Observed
On an International Anthropology of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
There is surprisingly little fieldwork done on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed fills that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon. Edited by Virginia Dominguez and Jasmin Habib, the essays collected here...
by Max Gluckman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in...
Against Exoticism
Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and...
Computable Bodies
Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Language and Linguistics
Data. Suddenly it is everywhere, and more and more of it is about us. The computing revolution has transformed our understanding of nature. Now it is transforming human behaviour.
For some, pervasive computing offers a powerful...
Cutting and Connecting
'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Questions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to describe similarities and differences in social life around the world. Cutting and Connecting rethinks this comparative enterprise by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical...
Human Ecology as Human Behavior
Essays in Environmental and Developmental Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures. However, the process has generated a new...