Anthropology category: 10809 books
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis
Abortion, Austerity, and Access
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Health Policy in a Time of Crisis is a vivid ethnographic account of women and providers navigating the Catalan health system to obtain and provide publicly funded abortion care.
Grounded in critical medical anthropology, the book situates access to publicly funded abortion care in the context...
The Life of the Senses
Introduction to a Modal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Both a vital theoretical work and a fine illustration of the principles and practice of sensory ethnography, this much anticipated translation is destined to figure as a major catalyst in the expanding field of sensory studies.
Drawing on his own fieldwork in Brazil and Japan and a wide range...
Island Shores, Distant Pasts
Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
"An excellent compilation of new methods and theories in Caribbean archaeology. . . . Not only materialize[s] the methodological advance in Caribbean archaeology, but also signif[ies] the strong theoretical progression that this discipline is experiencing."--Journal of Caribbean Archaeology...
Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy
Structural Ideals and Moral Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This thirty fourth volume in the REA series contains fourteen chapters by a variety of researchers touching on a wide range of topics in economic anthropology and covering a vast geographical area. The chapters are divided into four sections: one focusing on commodities and their social meanings and...
Anthropology and Epidemiology
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Health and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past two decades increasing interest has emerged in the contribu tions that the social sciences might make to the epidemiological study of patterns of health and disease. Several reasons can be cited for this increasing interest. Primary among these has been the rise of the chronic, non-infectious...
Orthodox Christian Material Culture
Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gell’s work), there has been very little written on Orthodox Christianity and its use of material within religious self-formation. Eastern Orthodox Christianity...
To Sing with Pigs Is Human
The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Melanesia has been the research focus of some of anthropology�s legendary names. In the best tradition of Melanesian scholarship, Jane Goodale writes here of the Kaulong who live in the deep forests of New Britain, an island in the vast territory of Papua New Guinea. Even in the last half of the...
by C. A. Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Christopher A. Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities is one of the undisputed classics of economic anthropology. On its publication in 1982, it spurred intense, ongoing debates about gifts and gifting, value, exchange, and the place of political economy in anthropology.
Gifts and Commodities is,...
Violence and Civilization
Studies of Social Violence in History and Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational...
Prehistoric Iberia
Genetics, Anthropology, and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The symposium "Prehistoric Iberia: genetics, anthropology and linguistics" was held in the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid on 16th -17th November 1998. The idea was bringing together specialists who could address not clearly resolved historic and prehistoric issues regarding ancient Iberian...
Globalized Eating Cultures
Mediation and Mediatization
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
This innovative volume explores the link between local and regional eating cultures and their mediatization via transnational TV cooking shows, glocal food advertising and social media transfer of recipes. Pursuing a global and interdisciplinary approach, it brings together research conducted in Latin...
by Melford E. Spiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to...
Rights to Culture
Heritage, Language and Community in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This collection brings together original, small-scale, ethnographic research on minorities and communities contesting heritage, livelihood, language, and citizenship in Thailand. The case studies included here look at the rights of communities to manage their own cultural and natural resources across...
Medical Materialities
Toward a Material Culture of Medical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Medical Materialities investigates possible points of cross-fertilisation between medical anthropology and material culture studies, and considers the successes and limitations of both sub-disciplines as they attempt to understand places, practices, methods, and cultures of healing. The editors present...