Anthropology category: 10809 books
by Peter Baumann
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2007
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2007
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Cognitive anthropology is the study of the relation between human society and human thought' lautet der erste Satz...
Coming of Age
The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The startling coming-of-age story of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead whose radical ideas challenged the social and sexual norms of her time.
The story begins in 1923, when twenty-two year old Margaret Mead is living in New York City, engaged to her childhood sweetheart and on the verge of...
by Mr. Peter Mandler
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. This fascinating book...
Journeys to the Edge
In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying...
by Professor Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology, Dr Elisabetta Costa
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact...
Social Media in an English Village
(Or how to keep people at just the right distance)
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post...
Buying In
The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Consumers are in control. Or so we're told. In Buying In, Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important cultural shift, including a practice he calls murketing, in which people create brands of their own and participate, in...
by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Dr. Krantz served as a full professor of anthropology at Washington State University from 1968 until 1998. Though he was a popular teacher with an almost cult-like following and highly regarded for his work on Homo Erectus, it was his pioneering exploration of the Sasquatch phenomenon which won him...
Art beyond Itself
Anthropology for a Society without a Story Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining...
Upheaval
Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.
In his international...
Monrovia Modern
Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished...
Primates of Park Avenue
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!
The book that has outraged the social elite!
“Eye-popping” —People
“Amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” —The New York Times Book Review
“Juicy, sexy, bawdy stuff” —New York Daily News
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Encountering Morocco
Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to...
My Freshman Year
What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with...