Anthropology category: 10809 books
Ethnoprimatology
A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Ethnoprimatology, the combining of primatological and anthropological practice and the viewing of humans and other primates as living in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces, has become an increasingly popular approach to primate studies in the twenty-first century. Offering an insight...
The Black Pacific
Anti-Colonial Struggles and Oceanic Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice?
This book challenges...
Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition
A Place called Shangrila
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic effects...
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
“A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review
In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa....
Censorium
Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because...
by Michael Taussig
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology’s—and indeed today’s—most distinctive writers,...
Where the Ancestors Walked
Australia as an Aboriginal Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
'Philip Clarke has penned an insightful and wide-ranging account of Australia's Aboriginal cultures from a perspective of great learning and insider privilege. It's an immensely significant work, revealing the extraordinary richness of one of the world's oldest continuous cultures.'
Tim Flannery,...
Tangweera
Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In the 1980s, conflicts between the Miskito people of Nicaragua's eastern coast and the Sandinistas drew international attention. Indeed, the Miskitos' struggle to defend their cultural autonomy and land rights points out a curious historical anomaly. This native group has long had closer ties to British...
Where the Spirits Ride the Wind
Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1990
The book is clearly written for the general reader and includes many descriptions of trance experiences. It may serve as a good introduction to the nature and appeal of the shamanic revival in modern Western cultures." —Theological Book Review
... a case study in experiential anthropology...
Symbols and Meaning
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of...
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil...
Islam, Faith, and Fashion
The Islamic Fashion Industry in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The subject of religion and dress in Turkey has been debated at great length both in academia and the media. Through in-depth ethnographic research into the Turkish fashion market and the work of a category of new comers, namely headscarf-wearing fashion professionals, Islam, Faith, and Fashion examines...
Fashion History
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies,...
Imagining Our Americas
Toward a Transnational Frame
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North...