Anthropology category: 10809 books
Empire and Local Worlds
A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th...
Subjects of modernity
Time-space, disciplines, margins
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under...
Indigenous Visions
Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology
In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now,...
by Anthony Leeds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings...
Socialization
The approach from social anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This volume represents the first major effort to apply the distinctive techniques of British social anthropology to the subject of socialization. Along with methodological and theoretical discussion, there is a variety of new field material from Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
First published in 1967.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
This volume approaches the issue of ambient sound through the ethnographic exploration of different cultural contexts including Italy, India, Egypt, France, Ethiopia, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, and Japan. It examines social, religious, and aesthetic conceptions of sound environments, what types of...
by Melford E. Spiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the questions: Do these folk beliefs make up a separate...
Entrancement
The consciousness of dreaming, music and the world
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This study of dreaming, death and shared consciousness develops a context that is humanistic, comparative and evidence-based in its engagement with the work of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology and the study of the imagination. It also reaches into current research on consciousness at the interface...
Doing Fieldwork
The Correspondence of Robert Redfield and Sol Tax
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Prior to the 1930s the highlands of Guatemala were largely undescribed, except in travelogues. Just two decades later, the highlands had become one of the most anthropologically well-investigated areas of the world. This is largely due to the research that Robert Redfield and Sol Tax carried out between...
The Art of Life and Death
Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting...
Unorthodox Kin
Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
How are local understandings of identity, relatedness, and belonging transformed in a global era? How does international tourism affect possibilities for who one can become?
In urban Portugal today, hundreds of individuals trace their ancestry to 15th century Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism,...
Ethos and Identity
Three Studies in Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puzzling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leoussi describes Epstein's response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance.
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Comparing Impossibilities
Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political system, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century...