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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters on consumption studies in anthropology, economics, history, sociology and many more areas.
Banana Cultures
Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores—everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana...
The Power of Huacas
Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists...
Hawking Incorporated
Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are—or, alternatively,...
Reflecting on America
Anthropological Views of U.S. Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Anthropologists travel back in time and across the globe to understand human culture but, surprise, there is culture right here in the United States. This second edition of the best-selling textbook and anthology, Reflecting on America, again focuses on how we can recognize the common cultural thread...
Trekking Through History
The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, they have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as "Ecuador's...
by Paul Gosselin
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
What we see is much influenced by how we look. In the culture wars presently gripping the West this is a critical issue. One of the key issues is the definition of the term "religion". What is a religion? Can one "do without a religion?" How one defines this term has a wide-ranging effect on matters...
by Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Over millions of years in the fossil record, hominin teeth preserve a high-fidelity record of their own growth, development, wear, chemistry and pathology. They yield insights into human evolution that are difficult, if not impossible, to achieve through other sources of fossil or archaeological data....
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving...
From Sudan to Suomi
Sudanese Christians in Northern Finland
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, , language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT Sudan and Suomi ('Finland' in Finnish) are very different nations. Various assessments have rated Finland the best country in the world in which to live while...
Nature's Return
An Environmental History of Congaree National Park
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation’s largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands,...
The Predicament of Culture
Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1988
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent...
Risk and Blame
Essays in Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can...
A Passion for Society
How We Think about Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does “the problem of suffering” serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work,...