Anthropology category: 10809 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the postcolonial creole societies of Latin America,...
Sexuality, Women, and Tourism
Cross-border desires through contemporary travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American...
by Robert Segal
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism,...
A Discipline on Foot
Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a “one nation” social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people. Roughly corresponding to folklore studies or...
Archives of the Insensible
Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In this jarring look at contemporary warfare and political visuality, renowned anthropologist of violence Allen Feldman provocatively argues that contemporary sovereign power mobilizes asymmetric, clandestine, and ultimately unending war as a will to truth. Whether responding to the fantasy of weapons...
by M. Yegenoglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism...
Sarajevo Under Siege
Anthropology in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the...
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be
Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training...
Material Powers
Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state...
Signifying Identities
Anthropological Perspectives on Boundaries and Contested Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This collection of extended papers examines the ways in which relations between national, ethnic, religious and gender groups are underpinned by each group's perceptions of their distinctive identities and of the nature of the boundaries which divide them. Questions of frontier and identity are theorised...
The Legacy of Dell Hymes
Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The accomplishments and enduring influence of renowned anthropologist Dell Hymes are showcased in these essays by leading practitioners in the field. Hymes (1927–2009) is arguably best known for his pioneering work in ethnopoetics, a studied approach to Native verbal art that elucidates cultural...
by Richard Price, Sally Price
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
When Richard and Sally Price stepped out of the canoe to begin their fieldwork with the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname in 1966, they were met with a mixture of curiosity, suspicion, ambivalence, hostility, and fascination. With their gradual acceptance into the community they undertook the work that...
by 鄭宗弦
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 13, 2019
禮俗就是繁文縟節嗎？你會想到傳統禮俗就頭痛？
難道禮俗就是大家都說要做，我就跟著做？但是我從來不明白禮俗背後的意義？
鄭宗弦的《有禮這一家：生命禮俗大揭祕》以小學生的視角，描述1980年代的一個大家族，在面臨每個人生命各個階段時，如何藉由生命禮俗，表達對生命的尊重與期盼，達成該階段的任務。看似傳統守舊的禮俗，其實是充滿溫情的細細叮嚀，更是最真誠的祝福。
■作者/譯者簡介
作者：鄭宗弦
1969...