Anthropology category: 10809 books
The Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture...
Youthscapes
The Popular, the National, the Global
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors....
Pursuits of Happiness
Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being—defined as “the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society”—and the comparison of well-being within...
by Harry F. Wolcott, University of Oregon; (d. 2012)
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In this long-anticipated second edition of The Art of Fieldwork, prominent anthropologist Harry F. Wolcott updates his original groundbreaking text, which both challenges and petitions anthropology and its practitioners to draw not only on the traditional precepts of science, but also on the richness...
Other People's Anthropologies
Ethnographic Practice on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Anthropological practice has been dominated by the so-called "great" traditions (Anglo-American, French, and German). However, processes of decolonization, along with critical interrogation of these dominant narratives, have led to greater visibility of what used to be seen as peripheral...
Recording Oral History
A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Recording Oral History, now available in its third edition, provides a comprehensive guide to oral history for researchers and students in diverse fields including history, sociology, anthropology, education, psychology, social work, and ethnographic methods.
Writing in a clear, accessible...
by Richard Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories...
Being Young in Super-Aging Japan
Formative Events and Cultural Reactions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Japan is not only the oldest society in the world today, but also the oldest society to have ever existed. This aging trend, however, presents many challenges to contemporary Japan, as it permeates all areas of life, from the economy and welfare to social cohesion and population decline. Nobody is...
Odd Tribes
Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions...
Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts
Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking...
by Peter L. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and...
Varieties of Secularism in Asia
Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of...
The T.N. Madan Omnibus
The Hindu Householder
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
For more than half a century, T.N. Madan has been a towering influence on the sociological and anthropological studies of family and kinship, cultural dimensions of development, religion, secularism, and Hindu society and tradition. This Omnibus brings together his seminal writings on marriage, kinship,...
Religious Experience Reconsidered
A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent decades scholars have questioned the privileging of the idea of religious experience in the study of religion, an approach...