Anthropology category: 10809 books
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
**National Book Critics Circle Award—2017 Nonfiction Finalist
“Nothing less than a tour de force—a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
A National Geographic...
Cannibalism
A Perfectly Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response...
by Jeremy Narby
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery...
by Hugh Raffles
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
A New York Times Notable Book
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant...
Humanitarian Reason
A Moral History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In the face of the world’s disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration...
The Land of Open Graves
Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as...
The Creative Spark
How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A bold new synthesis of paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and anthropology that overturns misconceptions about race, war and peace, and human nature itself, answering an age-old question: What made humans so exceptional among all the species on Earth?
Creativity. It is the secret of what...
by Miguel Covarrubias
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience.
First published in 1937, Island of Bali is still regarded by many as the most authoritative text on Bali and its fascinating people. Included is a wealth of information...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1985
Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced...
Viewing an American Ethnic Community
Rochester, New York, Italians in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Viewing an American Ethnic Community is a work based on the author's love of his heritage. Salamone, a professor of anthropology, believes that each ethnic community must adapt to the social and cultural circumstances in which it finds itself. Thus, while sharing much with other Italian-American communities,...
Signal and Noise
Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or...
An Archaeology of Architecture
Photowriting the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creative process that brings photographer and writer together in the same person. It may be true enough that...
The Globalization of Musics in Transit
Music Migration and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book traces the particularities of music migration and tourism in different global settings, and provides current, even new perspectives for ethnomusicological research on globalizing musics in transit. The dual focus on tourism and migration is central to debates on globalization, and their...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study...