Anthropology category: 10809 books
Fast-Forward Family
Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily...
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Reflections on Research in and of Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of critical...
Fast Food/Slow Food
The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production,...
Spas
The Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
From 17th-century Sweden to the present time, this remarkable volume provides a historical perspective on the manner in which hospitality has developed from a private right and obligation to a commercialized product. Examining the ways religion, belief, and notions of health and wellness have been...
Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu
Protecting a Community, Heritage Site, and Tourism Destination in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
As Latin America completes its second decade of neoliberal reforms, Pellegrino A. Luciano takes readers on an ethnographic journey back to a moment of monumental social and economic change in Peru. In Neoliberal Reform in Machu Picchu, Luciano describes the privatization struggles and challenges of...
Uprising of Hope
Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, have often been portrayed in reductive, polarized terms; either as saintly activists or dangerous rebels. Cultural anthropologists Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, drawing on decades-long relationships and fieldwork, attained a collegiality with the Zapatistas...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.
Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The rise of popular politics is among one the most significant social and political developments the People’s Republic of China has witnessed in the post-Mao era. People from all walks of life have responded to rising inequalities and the privatization of collective goods with a new quest for justice....
The War of the Sexes
How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant...
Tanners of Taiwan
Life Strategies and National Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese - in contemporary Taiwan. Under forty years of...
Globalization from Below
The World's Other Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world’s people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of ‘globalization from below’ are depicted and analyzed...
Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance...
Meeting at Grand Central
Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be--snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored....