Anthropology category: 10809 books
Human-Environment Interactions
Current and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land change sciences. The four sections...
by Ariana Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Anthropology, politics, and history come together to form an insightful blend in this authoritative title covering kinship, tribalism, and nonurban cultures the world over. Both the theory and practical examples of tribal cultures are presented, with several chapters dedicated to the various schools...
The Cooking of History
How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides...
Memorylands
Heritage and Identity in Europe Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how...
The Skin of the Film
Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The...
by Aneta Dybska
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated. This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies, geography, political philosophy,...
Transforming Modernity
Popular Culture in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a...
by Bianca Freire-Medeiros
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption.
The...
Adventures into Mexico
American Tourism beyond the Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Moving beyond the tequila-soaked clichés of Mexican tourism, this multifaceted book explores the influence and experiences of Americans in Mexico since World War II. The authors trace Mexico's growing role as an important refuge for Americans seeking not only sun and fun but also an alternative cultural...
Tourism
Between Place and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography...
African Futures
Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola—but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible...
The War Machines
Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia...
Painting Culture
The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often...
Emerging Ritual in Secular Societies
A Transdisciplinary Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The growing absence of meaningful ritual in contemporary Western societies has led to cohesive research on the history of ritualizing behaviour in different cultures. The relatively new field of ritology, which includes neuroscience, anthropology, cultural psychology, psychotherapy and even art and...