Anthropology category: 10809 books
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world...
Economy of Words
Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of anthropology, linguistics, and economics, he shows how central bankers have been engaging in communicative experiments that predate...
Local Democracy Under Siege
Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2007
2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award
Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first...
The Politics of Fieldwork
Research in an American Concentration Camp
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
During World War II, over thirty American anthropologists participated in empirical and applied research on more than 110,000 Japanese Americans subjected to mass removal and incarceration by the federal government. While that experience has been widely discussed, what has received little critical...
Footwork
Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it shows how urban modernisation, development and austerity politics impact the hidden lives of people...
Dinner with a Cannibal
The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of cannibalism....
Biomedical Odysseys
Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders...
Digital Keywords
A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media...
Tourism Imaginaries
Anthropological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which...
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship...
Collaborators Collaborating
Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science...
Tourism and Memories of Home
Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book investigates ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of mass tourism, the dilemma of authenticity, whether small tourism is beautiful, whether volunteer tourism is benign, whether tourism contributes to climate...
Biomedicine as Culture
Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its epistemic,...