Anthropology category: 10809 books
Everyone Eats
Understanding Food and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices and provides an explanation of the nutritional...
by Orin Starn
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2005
From the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian, this "eloquent and soul-searching book" (Lit) is "a compelling account of one of American anthropology's strangest, saddest chapters" (Archaeology).
After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth...
Kuxlejal Politics
Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana...
Zapata Lives!
Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
This richly detailed study chronicles recent political events in southern Mexico, up to and including the July 2000 election of Vicente Fox. Lynn Stephen focuses on the meaning that Emiliano Zapata, the great symbol of land reform and human rights, has had and now has for rural Mexicans. Stephen documents...
Women and Social Movements in Latin America
Power from Below
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing,...
by Margo DeMello
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A–Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities...
Indians into Mexicans
History and Identity in a Mexican Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The people of Mexquitic, a town in the state of San Luis Potosí in rural northeastern Mexico, have redefined their sense of identity from "Indian" to "Mexican" over the last two centuries. In this ethnographic and historical study of Mexquitic, David Frye explores why and how this transformation occurred,...
by Edward Clodd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
British polymath Edward Clodd was a banker who also established himself as a prominent thinker in the fields of anthropology and folklore. In Myths and Dreams, Clodd takes a look at the mythological beliefs of many cultures and societies, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, providing...
by W. E. H. Stanner
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as “The Dreaming” Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale,’ regarding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement,...
Corn and Capitalism
How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.
The book, first published in Mexico in 1988, combines approaches from anthropology,...
Culture and Dignity
Dialogues Between the Middle East and the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful...
When Greeks think about Turks
The View from Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Drawing upon anthropological studies that document culturally specific ways of perceiving ethic Others in Greece and Cyprus, this book explores the cultural boundaries of the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Turk’, and compares views on what it means to be one of these ethnic groups or both. The contributors...
Memory and Conflict in Lebanon
Remembering and Forgetting the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This book examines the legacy of Lebanon’s civil war and how the population, and the youth in particular, are dealing with their national past. Drawing on extensive qualitative research and social observation, the author explores the efforts of those who wish to remember, so as not to repeat past...