Anthropology category: 10809 books
Counterplay
An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges,...
Domestic Mandala
Architecture of Lifeworlds in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A rich and fascinating ethnography of domestic architecture and activities among the high caste Chhetris of Kholagaun in Nepal, this book focuses on the spatial organization, everyday activities and ritual performances that generate and display Chhetri houses as 'mandalas', sacred diagrams that are...
Redefining Culture
Perspectives Across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines argues that culture is one of the most important factors we need to know when we interact as well as in our discussions of social problems and their solutions. This book picks up the dialogue where Kroeber and Kluckhohn left off in their classic...
Alcohol
Social Drinking in Cultural Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to first-or second year college students.
Comfort Food
Meanings and Memories
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
With contributions by Barbara Banks, Sheila Bock, Susan Eleuterio, Jillian Gould, Phillis Humphries, Michael Owen Jones, Alicia Kristen, William G. Lockwood, Yvonne R. Lockwood, Lucy M. Long, LuAnne Roth, Rachelle H. Saltzman, Charlene Smith, Annie Tucker, and Diane Tye
Comfort Food explores...
Making Taste Public
Ethnographies of Food and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Making Taste Public takes an ethnographic approach to show how social relations shape - and are shaped by - the taste of food. Recognizing that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavour principles embedded in cuisine, editors Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund ask how these...
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen
Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author’s videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
This volume, the first of it's kind, examines the role of women paleontologists and archaeologists in a field traditionally dominated by men. Women researchers in this field, have questioned many of the assumptions and developmental scenarios advanced by male scientists. As a result of such efforts,...
by Carel P. Van Schaik
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral ecology and primate psychology, classical physical anthropology and evolutionary psychology of humans. However, unlike similar...
E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner
A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Reviewers have characterized Paul Naour's A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism, which includes brief introductions by E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner's elder daughter, Julie Vargus, as an idea book. The work will undoubtedly have a significant academic market and provide students and...
These Days of Large Things
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The United States at the turn of the twentieth century cultivated a passion for big. It witnessed the emergence of large-scale corporate capitalism; the beginnings of American imperialism on a global stage; record-level immigration; a rapid expansion of cities; and colossal events and structures like...
by Marshall Sahlins, David Graeber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists—David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins—explores...
The Legacy of Mesoamerica
History and Culture of a Native American Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization summarizes and integrates information on the origins, historical development, and current situations of the indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica. It describes their contributions from the development of Mesoamerican Civilization...
The Cunning of Recognition
Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2002
The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with...