Anthropology category: 10809 books
Entheogens and the Development of Culture
The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Entheogens and the Development of Culture makes the radical proposition that mind-altering substances have played a major part not only in cultural development but also in human brain development. Researchers suggest that we have purposely enhanced receptor sites in the brain, especially those for...
Mapping Our Ancestors
Phylogenetic Approaches in Anthropology and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Much of what we are comes from our ancestors. Through cultural and biological inheritance mechanisms, our genetic composition, instructions for constructing artifacts, the structure and content of languages, and rules for behavior are passed from parents to children and from individual to individual....
by Martin Demant Frederiksen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often,...
Bioarchaeology of Impairment and Disability
Theoretical, Ethnohistorical, and Methodological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences. Such investigations typically take a case study approach and focus on the functional aspects of impairments. However, these interpretations...
Closed Systems and Open Minds
The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field,...
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World
Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Rock art has long been considered an archaeological artifact reflecting activities from the past, yet it is also a phenomenon with present-day meaning and relevance to both indigenous and non-indigenous communities. Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World challenges traditional ways of thinking...
by Helen Vallianatos
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In this innovative contribution to the study of food, gender, and power, Helen Vallianatos meticulously documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practaices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements. She explores both large-scale forces—incorporating critical...
Australian Aboriginal Kinship
An introductory handbook with particular emphasis on the Western Desert
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Since the very early years of anthropology, Australian Aboriginal kinship has fascinated researchers in the field as well as theorists. Its complexity is considerable and, as some have remarked, its mechanical and logical beauty is astonishing. This complexity has however discouraged many scholars,...
Kisisi (Our Language)
The Story of Colin and Sadiki
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!
Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother’s memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of the friendship they shared in postcolonial...
Gambling Debt
Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Gambling Debt is a game-changing contribution to the discussion of economic crises and neoliberal financial systems and strategies. Iceland’s 2008 financial collapse was the first case in a series of meltdowns, a warning of danger in the global order. This full-scale anthropology of financialization...
Stratagems And Spoils
A Social Anthropology Of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands is the classic and only thorough description of their complex rules of marriage and family relations. It draws on...
Breaking the Frames
Anthropological Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate a mindful,...