Anthropology category: 10809 books
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides...
Global Health in Africa
Historical Perspectives on Disease Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Global Health in Africa is a first exploration of selected histories of global health initiatives in Africa. The collection addresses some of the most important interventions in disease control, including mass vaccination, large-scale treatment and/or prophylaxis campaigns, harm reduction efforts,...
Bioarchaeology
Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 1997
Human remains recovered from archaeological sites can help us interpret lifetime events such as disease, physiological stress, injury and violent death, physical activity, tooth use, diet and demographic history of once-living populations. This is the first comprehensive synthesis of the emerging...
by W. G. Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals. The Social Animal is a short, wide-ranging, witty and accessible book that sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live within...
Bangkok
Place, Practice and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous...
Under the Kapok Tree
Identity and Difference in Beng Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb
explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Côte
d'Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights
the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by
the kapok tree planted...
The Healthy Ancestor
Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they “fail” to seek medical care, are “non-compliant” patients, or “lack immunity” enjoyed by the “mainstream” population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous...
by Tania Li
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base,...
Volunteer Tourism
Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal ethnographic perspective. Volunteer tourism, one of the fastest growing niche tourism markets in the world,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest thinking about the distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are its consequences. The book's 25 chapters are written by a wide range of scholars, from anthropology, biology,...
Truth and Indignation
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The original edition of Truth and Indignation offered the first close and critical assessment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as it was unfolding. Niezen used testimonies, texts, and visual materials produced by the Commission as well as interviews with survivors, priests, and nuns...
Contingent Citizens
Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa's public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an ethnography of the professional ethic of nurses in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, shaped by a deep history of mission...
Ethnic Identity
Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities,...
Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative force involving inequalties, rather than an exchange of equal valued commodites. Guiding readers through the...